 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)  |
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| The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that states establish performance goals for all schools, districts, and the state to ensure that all students reach 100% proficiency on state assessments by 2014. Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) refers to the intermediate yearly goals that each state must establish...(full article) | |||
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Highly Qualified Teachers under NCLB |
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| Title II-A of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) focuses on teacher and paraprofessional quality in order to improve student achievement. NCLB has established rigorous goals for ensuring that all teachers are highly qualified by the end of the 2005-2006 school year...(full article) | |||
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Parental Notification Requirements under NCLB |
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| The No Child Left Behind Act requires notices and information be given to parents under several circumstances. All required information must be given in a “uniform and understandable format, and to the extent practicable, in a language that the parents can understand.” If the school has a schoolwide Title I program, required notices must be sent to parents of all students...(full article) | |||
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Public School Choice |
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| No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires that students in Title 1 Needs Improvement schools be allowed to transfer to a higher performing school within the same district. A school is identified as needing improvement if it fails to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for 2 or more consecutive years...(full article) | |||
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According to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), students from low-income families who remain in Title 1 schools that are in the second year of Needs Improvement status are eligible to receive supplemental educational services. Supplemental educational services may include tutoring or remedial classes that are offered by the school or another agency approved by the Georgia Department of Education...(full article) | ||