Letters were recently sent to families with students at schools in the district which have been identified as “in need of improvement.” The law allows students to attend a similar publicly-funded school, charter school, community school or virtual school that has entered into a cooperative agreement with Winton Woods to accept students and is not in “School Improvement.” Since Winton Woods has no mutual cooperative agreements with publicly-funded school options for the 2010-2011 school year, parents were provided with a list of virtual schools in Ohio that are not in School Improvement. Additionally, students who have not met proficiency in reading and math are given first priority for Title I-funded tutoring services, or “supplemental educational services.”
AYP is an accountability feature of the No Child Left Behind Act which requires all schools, districts and states to show that students are making adequate yearly progress in reading and mathematics. The act requires states to establish annual performance targets that will result in all students scoring at the proficient level on the state’s assessment by 2014.
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