Sunday, September 23, 2012
The Central Bucks School District overall did well on the latest state tests, but special education students at seven schools did not meet federal mandates for proficiency in reading or math.
Seven of the Central Bucks School District's 23 schools did not meet student benchmarks set under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The 2011-12 PSSA test results show that four of the district's 15 elementary schools, one of its five middle schools and two of its three high schools did not make Adequate Yearly Progress. The state released the test results on Friday. Passed in 2001, No Child Left Behind required that all U.S. students score proficient or higher in reading or language arts and mathematics by 2014. In Pennsylvania, scores on the PSSA tests are used to determine proficiency. Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, measures whether a school is making sufficient progress towards the goal of 100 percent proficiency, according to …
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The district made Adequate Yearly Progress but six schools were placed on warning status because of special education scores.
It has become an October symbol of sorts for officials in the Central Bucks School District, just as much as mums, pumpkins and falling leaves. First, they bask in the "utterly spectacular" performance of students in the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests. Then they rail against the "insanity" behind the No Child Left Behind measurements that show six schools -- including three that have been awarded Blue Ribbon status by the U.S. Department of Education -- as failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress. "Federal mandates be damned," board member Chris Asplen insisted at Tuesday night's school board meeting. "No matter what they are telling us, no Central Bucks children are being left behind." The PSSA's are a series of …
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Special education students did not reach the goals for math set out by No Child Left Behind.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Most of the schools in the Central Bucks School District achieved benchmarks set by federal school regulations, but a handful did not. Of the district's 23 schools, six did not achieve "adequate yearly progress," the Pennsylvania Department of Education said Thursday. The conclusions are drawn from student scores on the PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment) exams from last spring. The results of the state's standardized tests were released Thursday. Central Bucks East and West high schools, Holicong, Lenape and Unami middle schools, and Barclay Elementary received warnings based on those scores. All the warnings were based on not enough special education students achieving sufficiency ratings in math. To meet this year's …
Krby
2:12 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
Well said EJ. I know from experience that the special ed programs at CB are one of the bests around. Children who need these services are all so different that even modified tests do not depict accurate results. I also think that too much focus has been put on these tests as a whole. Teaching to the test has become normal which is a shame. more ›