Good
afternoon,
I spent the morning at the
Illinois State Fair this morning, where our staff has set up a booth in
I invite each of you out to
the booth, where staff is on hand to answer questions about teacher
certification, School Report Cards, and more.
Secondly, I would like to
let each of you know that based on our preliminary performance data we have
determined AYP and have notified those schools who may need to offer additional
services and options to students. While this AYP calculation excludes,
attendance, graduation and participation rates (each of which is due to be
submitted next week), it does represents the best information that we have
available at this time. We have sent letters out to the 694 schools that will be
affected. Because of pending Freedom of Information Act requests, we will be
releasing the list of schools that have been designated as being in need of
improvement to the press next Tuesday.
Also below today is a
reminder to each of you for filing your School Report Card data and reviewing
and approving your assessment performance data.
Robert
Schiller
State
Superintendent
of
Education
Also in today’s
message:
IMPORTANT SCHOOL
STATUS INFORMATION
ATTENTION ALL
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS
On
· public school
choice; or
· public school
choice and supplemental educational services; or
· public school
choice, supplemental educational services, and corrective action;
or
· public school
choice, supplemental educational services, corrective action, and first year of
restructuring.
Schools identified as
having to offer any of the above, except for restructuring (first year is a
planning year) should be prepared to implement these efforts at the beginning of
2004-05 school year.
As a
reminder – the status
determinations have been made by using preliminary 2004 assessment data. We need
to remember that not every district has completed its revisions and/or made
necessary approvals of their performance data on Schoolhouse (This window closes
August 21st). The preliminary status may possibly change if
revisions to the performance data positively impact a school’s
AYP.
If you suspect you should
be offering Choice and or SES and have not been notified, please contact Data
Analysis (217) 782-3669.
2002-2003 NCLB
Performance Report Reminder
ALERT: approximately 110 school districts still have not
completed the 2002-2003 NCLB Performance Report in spite of the deadline having
been extended and telephone calls made to all districts not having yet filed the
report. It is very important that this report be completed as federal funds for
2004-05 will be frozen if it is not received promptly. If your district received
Title I, Title II, Title IV or Title V funds in 2002-03, the superintendent or
his/her designee should immediately go into IWAS and complete the
report.
SchoolHouse Update
(2004 Assessment Data Corrections) - Reminder
The first window for
verifying 2004 state assessment data on Pearson’s SchoolHouse system closed on
During the second
correction window (July 27 -
When the second window
closes on
There will be NO
additional opportunities after
REMINDER:
Report Card Data Due by
The school report card data
collection form (ISBE 86-43) is available online via IWAS. Please enter,
verify and approve all the data for your school(s) by the due date which is
Preliminary
GSA
The following link will provide each
of you our most recent estimates of General State Aid for Fiscal Year 2005.
Because we have yet to receive the final Cook County EAVs from the Illinois
Department of Revenue, in addition to required calculation changes resulting
from SB2349, these Gross and Net GSA estimates remain preliminary (http://www.isbe.net/budget/preliminary_gsa.pdf).
Annual Measurable
Achievement Objectives for Title III (AMAO) Performance Report
The Illinois State Board of
Education has set the 2004 Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAOs) for
English language proficiency in response to a No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
mandate. These targets are listed in the table
below.
This fall, school districts
receiving Title III monies will be notified for the first time of their
pass/fail status in meeting these established AMAOs. These AMAO targets apply to
all school districts which received Title III funds. The AMAOs are
measured from the performance of a cohort* of LEP students in local-state
approved tests that measure their proficiency in listening, reading,
speaking, and writing English – not IMAGE or ISAT. A school district must
have a percentage of the students score within the “Proficient” category for the
test administered in the district to meet AMAOs. “AMAO Proficient” is a
composite score computed by taking a weighted percentage of proficient students
in each domain (listening, reading, speaking, and writing).
AMAO Progress Targets 2004
(Based upon 2003/04 Student
Data)
|
Assessment |
AMAO Proficient |
|
2004
LAS |
25% |
|
2004
IPT |
23% |
|
2004
LPTS |
22% |
|
2004
Maculaitis II |
14% |
If the State
determines, based on the annual measurable achievement objectives, that a school
district fails to make progress toward meeting such objectives for 2
consecutive years, the agency will require the school district to
develop an improvement plan that will ensure that the schools meet such
objectives. School districts which failed to meet the AMAOs must also
notify parents of students participating in the school district’s Title
III programs, of such failure. If the State determines that the district
has failed to meet the AMAOs for 4 consecutive years, the agency shall,
Require the
district to modify the curriculum, program, method of instruction; or
make a determination whether the district shall continue to receive funds
and require the district to replace educational personnel relevant to the
district’s failure to reach the objectives.
The State may
also recognize local school districts whose programs have demonstrated
significant progress in assisting students to learn English and to meet the same
challenging academic content standards as all students are expected to meet.
These AMAOs apply until the State of
*A cohort is defined by grade level
clusters that are specific to each State-Approved Local Test.
ISBE-approved local tests are the Idea Proficiency Test (IPT), the Language
Assessment Scale (LAS), the Language Proficiency Test Series (LPTS), and the
Maculaitis (MACII). For local individual assessment level information
go to www.isbe.net/bilingual/pdfs/titleIII_amao.pdf.
Education Funding
Hearing Set for
On Monday, August
16th at
http://www.isbe.net/news/2004/newsclips/040813.htm