Poverty is a common thread among the area’s struggling schools, but
Michigan’s new accountability system revealed weaknesses at buildings
that passed the old system with flying colors.
Case in point: Quincy Middle School.
That
rural Branch County school has never appeared on a state watch list for
poor student achievement. Every year, it has hit the state’s “adequate
yearly progress” benchmarks for the share of students who test
proficient or better on state tests.
But
for the 2011-12 school year, the first time schools were held
accountable to a new system allowed by a federal waiver to the federal
No Child Left Behind Act, Quincy Middle School was among 12 local
buildings on the state’s list of “focus schools.”
Focus schools are those with wide gaps between the test scores of
their highest- and lowest-performing students, regardless of race or
income.
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20120812/NEWS01/308120017/Poverty-matters-school-rankings
Monday, August 13, 2012
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