Indian Education Annual Report

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Indian Education Annual Report

• Office of Indian Education
• Arizona Department of Education
• June 18, 2007

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Indian Education Annual Report

• Authorized by A.R.S- 15-244
• Statewide report on IEA (Indian Education Act)
  LEAs.
• 2008 will include narratives and LEA specific
  information.

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Background and sample

• Data regarding school performance was collected
  and analyzed for 61 school districts that contain
  or boundary tribal lands. These districts will
  hereafter be referred to as IEA LEAs. All
  student performance measures that are presented
  in this report are from students that were
  enrolled in the IEA LEAs.

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Background and Sample

• The school performance measures that were
  analyzed include
• Student achievement on statewide assessments
• AYP performance
• AZLEARNS performance
• Dropout rate
• Graduation rate
• Attendance rate
• School safety

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Figure 1Percentage of All Students in IEA LEAs
Passing the AIMS Math and AIMS Reading in 2004,
2005, and 2006

• Scores in both math and reading increased greatly
  from 2004 to 2005.
• Increases continued from 2005 to 2006.
• Increases have slowed.

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Percentage of Students in IEA LEAs Passing AIMS
Math by County in 2004, 2005, and 2006
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Percentage of Students in IEA LEAs Passing AIMS
Reading by County in 2004, 2005, and 2006
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Percent of Students in IEA LEAs Passing AIMS Math
by Ethnicity in 2004, 2005, and 2006
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Percent of Students in IEA LEAs Passing AIMS
Reading by Ethnicity in 2004, 2005, and 2006
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Although Native American students showed lower
rates of passage than the other minorities,
Figures 14 and 15 show that Native American
students have the highest percentage of students
improving on the AIMS.
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Figure 14Percentage of Students in IEA LEAs that
Improved at Least One Level on AIMS Math by
Ethnicity from 2004 to 2005, 2005 to 2006, and
2004 to 2006
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Figure 15Percentage of Students in IEA LEAs that
Improved at Least One Level on AIMS Reading by
Ethnicity from 2004 to 2005, 2005 to 2006, and
2004 to 2006
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AYP

• Test 95 of their enrolled students
• Set percentage of students must meet test
  objectives
• K-8 schools need 90 attendance rate
• 9-12 schools must have 71 graduation rate

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Figure 16Percentage of IEA LEAs the Made AYP in
2004, 2005, and 2006
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Figure 18Percentage of IEA LEAs Failing to Meet
Each Category within AYP in 2004, 2005, and 2006
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Achieving AYP

• Meeting test objective is largest hurdle
• Large increase in LEAs failing to meet 95 tested
  category
• Graduation rate is a much larger hindrance to AYP
  than attendance rate

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AZ LEARNS

• Takes into account current achievement and
  improvement shown since previous year.
• AZ LEARNS is only evaluated at school level
• Most IEA schools met the state academic standards
  in all three years 2004-2006.

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Percentage of IEA Schools Meeting State Academic
Standards in 2004, 2005, and 2006
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Figure 23Percentage of IEA Schools in Each of
the Five AZ LEARNS Categories for 2006

• The excelling category grew every year, starting
  at 10 in 2004 and ending at 19 in 2006.
• The lowest category failing to meet academic
  standards, held steady over three years at a
  measly 1.

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Percentage of IEA Schools that Met or Exceeded
the 71 Graduation Rate in 2004 or 2005
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Percentage of IEA Schools with a 90 Attendance
Rate or Better in 2004, 2005, or 2006
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School Safety- Most common types of incidents are

• Bullying and harassment
• Fights without a weapon
• Drug possession
• Threats without a weapon
• Vandalism
• Incidents of these offenses are increasing,
  especially fights and bullying.

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Conclusion

• IEA LEAs have shown strong gains in the
  percentage of students passing both AIMS math and
  AIMS reading.
• Native American students in particular have shown
  strong increases in the percentage of students
  improving on the AIMS.
• Attendance rates at IEA schools show strong and
  consistent success.

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Conclusion Cont

• The areas that should be the focus of improvement
  are increasing the percentage of students that
  meet the test objective for AYP purposes.
• Graduation rates also need to be improved across
  IEA LEAs.
• Offenses in schools seem to be on the rise
  alternative methods for addressing these offenses
  should be explored.

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Next Year 2008

• The Indian Education Annual Report will include
  narratives from IEA LEAs.
• Summarized versions of district report cards will
  also be included.
• IEA LEAs will report to ADE by June 30, 2008
  through an academic achievement report process
  currently under construction.