New MDE Resource Helps Schools Take the Mystery Out of School Report Cards

Michigan Department of Education's Education YES! Report Card Guide and Tool Kit

The Michigan Department of Education’s Education YES! Report Card Guide and Tool Kit is designed to assist school district personnel understand and communicate the complex federal and state requirements contained in the No Child Left Behind Act and Michigan’s Accreditation System known as Education YES!. The guide and tool kit will help schools share information and build understanding with a wide variety of audiences, including parents, business partners, and community members.

This document offers information about the following topics:

• What Is Education YES?
• No Child Left Behind
• Annual Report Card Requirements
• Using the Online School Report Card
• Using the Report Card for School Improvement
• Questions to Anticipate

The guide and tool kit also provides sample activities and strategies for sharing information about building school report card results.

For more information or to download this document, visit www.michigan.gov/mde or contact: Sheri Carter, Michigan Department of Education P.O. Box 30008, Lansing, MI 48909, (517) 241-0494, fax (517) 335-4565, cartersh@michigan.gov.

What Is AYP?

Frequently Asked Questions About Adequate Yearly Progress

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is one of the cornerstones of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. In Michigan, AYP is a measure of year-to-year student achievement on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test.

To comply with NCLB, Michigan and other states must have developed target starting goals for AYP and the state must “raise the bar” in gradual increments until 100 percent of the students in the state are proficient on state assessments by the 2013-14 school year.

NCLB also requires other indicators to be used in determining AYP. For elementary and middle schools in Michigan, attendance rates are used. For high schools, graduation rates are used. All schools must have at
least 95 percent of its students take the MEAP.

AYP applies to each school building in the state; however, NCLB remedies for schools that do not make AYP for two or more years in a row apply only to those districts and schools that receive Title 1 federal funds. Because Michigan had an AYP definition in place before 2001-02, Title I schools—those that qualify because of an increased proportion of students that receive free and reduced lunch—that did not make AYP prior to that year may be identified for corrective action as defined in NCLB.

Source: Michigan Department of Education's Education YES! Report Card Guide and Tool Kit

For a more detailed explanation of AYP, visit www.michigan.gov/mde and click on Michigan Department of Education's Education YES! Report Card Guide and Tool Kit. The Michigan School Report Card Web site allows users to review performance data for schools and verify the accuracy of the data. Visit https://oeaa.state.mi.us/ayp/.

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