What Does It Mean?

21st Century Community Learning Center—An entity that assists students in meeting state and local academic achievement standards in core academic subjects by providing academic enrichment activities during non-school hours.
(Source: U.S. Department of Education)

Adequate Yearly Progress—An individual state’s measure of yearly progress toward achieving state academic standards, adequate yearly progress (AYP) is the minimum level of improvement that school districts and schools must achieve each year.
(Source: U.S. Department of Education)

Identified for Improvement—If a school where federal Title I funds are used fails to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two consecutive years in the same content area (English language arts or mathematics), it is “identified for improvement” under the No Child Left Behind Act. Schools remain identified for improvement until the school makes AYP in the same content area for two consecutive years. Also known as “high priority schools.”
(Source: Michigan Department of Education)

MI-Access—The state’s only standardized assessment program designed specifically for students with disabilities whose Individualized Education Program Teams have determined that the Michigan Education Assessment Program is not appropriate for them, even with assessment accommodations.
(Source: Michigan Department of Education)

Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)—The statewide assessment program used in Michigan to test and report student achievement in the core academic subjects at certain grade levels.
(Source: Michigan Department of Education)

Michigan School Readiness Program—Home-based and center-based preschool programs for four-year-old children who may be "at risk" of school failure. Each participating child must have at least two of the 25 identified risk factors and at least 50 percent of the children must come from low-income households.
(Source: Michigan Department of Education)

No Child Left Behind (NCLB)—The most recent congressional reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). NCLB is built on four pillars: accountability for results; an emphasis on doing what works based on scientific research; expanded parental options; and expanded local control and flexibility.
(Source: U.S. Department of Education)

Supplemental Services—Outside tutoring or academic assistance provided free-of-charge for students from low-income families who are attending schools that have been identified for improvement for two years.
(Source: U.S. Department of Education)

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