Multiyear Fiscal Recovery Plan MYFRP review

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Tiered Accountability Support System
January 4, 2008
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Tiered Accountability Support Framework
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Tiered Accountability Support Framework
Increased Monitoring and Support

• Targeted support can help to build cohesiveness
  and alignment around key instructional practices
• Additional resources should be allocated towards
  those schools most in need of accelerating
  student achievement

Increased Flexibilities awarded through
application process

• The ability to select and/or modify curriculum
  to meet needs increases ownership and leadership
  for achievement results on the part of faculties
  and families
• Innovation can drive system-wide improvement,
  especially when effective practices are shared
  within a common framework of high expectations
• There must be demonstrated capacity and
  leadership to support innovation and flexibility
  to ensure high quality and results

Accountability for Results

All schools must be held to the same high
standards of accelerating academic achievement to
grade level and beyond for all students
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Tiering Criteria Methodology

• System combines three categories of performance
• Absolute Performance
• Cohort Matched Student Level Growth
• Closing the Achievement Gap
• A school is first tiered based on Program
  Improvement Status
• The school can then move up or down based on
  either growth or achievement gap

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Tiering Criteria Methodology
Step 1 A School is Tiered Based on NCLB Program
Improvement Status
Step 2 A school receives scores in growth and
closing the achievement gap
Step 3 A school can JUMP UP one tier or DOWN one
tier based on performance in growth or
achievement gap
1 year cohort matched growth
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Tiering Criteria Methodology for Moving UP or
DOWN
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Tiering Criteria Absolute Performance

• Absolute performance is based on Adequate Yearly
  Progress. There are three possible scores
• GREEN Made AYP in both of the last two years
• YELLOW Made AYP in one of the past two years
• RED Did not make AYP
• The table shows in RED where a school did not
  make the AYP targets

SAMPLE
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Tiering Criteria Cohort Matched Growth

• Cohort matched growth examines how a school is
  moving the performance of students over time
• There are two categories measured
• Is the school moving at least 1/3 of its
  students at least one performance band?
• Is the number of students improving greater than
  the number of students decreasing in performance?
• Each of these categories is measured for both
  Math and ELA resulting in FOUR possible points

SAMPLE
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Tiering Criteria Achievement Gap

• The achievement gap criteria measures how a
  school is closing the gap between its lowest
  performing subgroup and school-wide performance.
  NOTE a negative number means the gap is closing
• In addition, all subgroups must receive an API
  of 550 or higher

SAMPLE
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