On Sep 8, 2004, at 12:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's new about NCLB is that it has a mechanism for imposing changes in
school governance and ultimately closing down schools that fail to make "adequate
yearly progress."
FYI: NCLB's consequences only accrue to schools that receive federal Title I money - those with more students in poverty. (The feds can only control their own money.) For schools with wealthier student bodies and no Title I support, there are NO consequences, no matter how often they fail to make Average Yearly Progress.
So in Southwest, schools such as Windom and Whittier could conceivably face the federal penalties after several years of "failure." (Whittier, by the way, met its NCLB goals this year but must stay off the list two years in a row to get off the "bad" list.) Meanwhile, "richer" schools such as Lake Harriet, Barton and Burroughs - who failed to perform for the first time - would never be forced to reconstituted because they don't receive federal Title I funds.
For the "richer" schools, then, the AYP/NCLB list is more a marketing stigma than a financial one. "Poorer" schools face tougher penalties.
David Brauer Kingfield
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