Resource Links

  • Massachusetts Department of Education (MADESE Title 1)
     www.doe.mass.edu/titlei/
     

  • Office of Innovation and Improvement

    Secretary Spellings announced the release of new non-regulatory guidance on the public school choice and SES provisions of No Child Left Behind.  The two documents update and expand upon previous versions of the guidance.  The new guidance addresses issues related to the new Title I regulations released in October 2008, as well as other major policy decisions by the Department over the last few years. 

          To view the press release, please visit: 

http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/01/01142009.html

          To read the public school choice guidance document, please visit: 

 http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/schoolchoiceguid.doc  

          To read the SES guidance document, please visit:

http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/suppsvcsguid.doc

    

  • Seven Essential Points

     1. All states as well as LEAs must publish National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results in reading and math on LEA accountability report cards. Because NAEP utilizes a small sampling of schools and districts, the state NAEP information on the district-or school-level report card could be confusing to parents and the public. State level NAEP results do not necessarily include test scores from those schools or districts. 
     
    Quoting from Secretary Spellings: “States and districts must now publish reading and mathematics results from the Nation’s Report Card alongside data from their own tests for students and include participation rates for students with disabilities and those who are limited English proficient.”

     

    2. All states must explain in their Accountability Workbooks to Ed, how its minimum group size, or “n” size (and other components of its AYP definition), interact to provide statistically reliable data ensuring inclusion of all students and subgroups.

     

    3. The new Regulations outline the criteria to be met in order for a state to qualify to implement a “Growth Model”.  This incorporates individual student progress into the state’s definition of AYP.

     

    4. All schools in School Improvement or Program Improvement must provide School Choice information to parents no later than 14 days before the start of the school year.  Due to various state testing schedules and year-round schedules, this may be difficult to implement.

     

    5.All states must establish and implement a “uniform definition of a graduation rate.” An option allows states to use an extended-year adjusted cohort graduation rate. This gives schools credit for students who take longer than four years to graduate. Quoting from Secretary Spellings: “Under the new regulations, all states will use the same formula to calculate how many students graduate from high school on time and how many drop out. The final regulations define the four year adjusted cohort graduation rate” as the number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of students who entered high school four years earlier, adjusted for transfers, students who emigrate and deceased students. The data will be made public so that educators and parents can compare how students of every race, background and income level are performing.”

    6. The new Regulations seek to ensure that schools in restructuring engage in rigorous interventions and that they specifically address the reasons for the school being in restructuring.

    7. The new Regulations require the Secretary of Education to utilize the National Technical Advisory Council in order to address technical needs of the states.  The Council will ensure that state standards and assessments are of the highest technical quality.

     

     

  • No Child Left Behind(NCLB)
    www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml
  • United States Department of Education(USDOE) Title I
    www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/reports.html#title

  • USDOE NCLB Guidance & Regulations www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oese/legislation.html