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GHS Pays a (Small) Price for Missing 'No Child' Standards
Officials say achievement targets are unrealistic and will be worse next year.
School District 304 must spend at least $22,000 to improve Geneva High School students’ math and reading test scores enough to meet the No Child Left Behind Act targets, officials announced Monday. The Board of Education approved a school improvement plan required by the Illinois State Board of Education and the U.S. Department of Education because less than 85 percent of students met or exceeded state standards last year, explained Superintendent Kent Mutchler. About 76.3 percent met the standard in reading, while 77.2 percent met the standard in math. White students, the only racial subgroup large enough to be counted separately at the high school, reached 77 percent achievement of state standards in reading and 78 percent in math. …
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Nora
12:40 am on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
As a GHS graduate, this is rather embarrassing. What, exactly, should that $22,000 be going toward OTHER than academic education? And it's even more embarrassing that the article singles out a minority of the student population in attempting to explain these trends. Students in the ESL and low-income category that failed to meet the standard account for just ~5.4%, combined, of the entire student… more ›