Report Card - June 27, 2007
Dear Parent or Guardian:
We are pleased to enclose our school "report card" for the current year. It contains important information about teacher qualifications, student achievement on Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests, and the progress we are making toward helping all students become proficient in English language arts and mathematics. The information in the report card is divided into three parts
Part I: Teacher Qualifications
Part II: Student Achievement
Part III: School Accountability
Part I provides information about the qualifications of the teachers in our school and district. Part II summarizes how our school's students scored in English language arts and mathematics in the last two years of MCAS examinations. Part III indicates whether or not our school is on target to meet the goal of all students reaching proficiency in English language arts and mathematics by 2014, a fundamental goal of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In accordance with NCLB, schools that do not make sufficient progress toward this goal are identified for 'improvement', 'corrective action', or 'restructuring'.
Our school's 2006 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) report shows that the Academy did not make AYP in math. As a result of these determinations, the Academy is identified for Improvement.
These findings are an important part of your right to know how well our school is helping all students to reach proficiency in English language arts and mathematics. Schools receiving federal Title I funds that do not make AYP for two consecutive years must allow parents the opportunity to transfer their child to another school in the district that is performing satisfactorily. You of course have that option at any time since we are a charter school. Schools that have not made AYP for three years in a row must also offer parents a chance to access supplemental educational services for their children, which we have done. Supplemental services allow eligible children to be tutored after school or participate in classes aimed at boosting academic achievement in English language arts and mathematics.
There is a longer version of this report card available on our website at www.smithleadership.org, and can also be obtained by stopping by the main office. The longer version contains more detailed MCAS results by subgroup. We are happy to help you if you have further questions about what this report card means. Please feel free to call me directly if I can be of additional assistance to you.
Sincerely,
Karmala Sherwood
Head of School
MCAS Test Results
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