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Old 08-08-2012, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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All these districts' high schools fail:
Austin (except Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy)
Lake Travis
Pflugerville
Del Valle
Round Rock

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/ayp/20...ampfinal12.pdf
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Old 08-08-2012, 04:00 PM
 
Location: SW
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Wtg Lake Travis!! That's how you stick it to Westlake!!!
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Old 08-08-2012, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Texas Hill Country
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More meaningless numbers. And our district "passed."
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Old 08-08-2012, 05:09 PM
 
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When 56% of the state is failing, I really don't think it's the schools anymore. Stupid standards, I hate them all.
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Old 08-08-2012, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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And it will be 82% nationwide that will fail next year. The goal is 100% of the student will pass English and Math by 2014.
Impossible goal set by the Fed government.

This is not a Texas problem. Many schools have improved but not to the numbers determined by NCLB so therefore they failed.
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Old 08-08-2012, 07:23 PM
 
Location: Sugar Land, Texas
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Wtg Lake Travis!! That's how you stick it to Westlake!!!
Your criticism of Lake Travis is ridiculous. I posted another thread about the UIL Lone Star Cup that LTHS won, and you mocked the entire thing. All this, like another poster said, is just "more meaningless numbers".
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Old 08-08-2012, 08:30 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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I'm really looking foward to seeing NCLB scrapped in favor of new education reform.
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Old 08-08-2012, 09:12 PM
 
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When 56% of the state is failing, I really don't think it's the schools anymore. Stupid standards, I hate them all.
I'm not sure I disagree with having standards but I agree that this is probably not totally related to the efforts (or lack thereof) of specific schools than many other problem spanning from current standards, leadership, wages, immigration impact and many other issues.
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Old 08-09-2012, 06:45 AM
 
Location: Folsom, CA
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How did the California schools do in comparison to Texas? Apparently some states were granted a waiver from reporting the results this year to give them more time to shape up but Texas did not. My question is inspired by Mitt Romney's comparison of the state of California to Greece.
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Old 08-09-2012, 07:24 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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How did the California schools do in comparison to Texas? Apparently some states were granted a waiver from reporting the results this year to give them more time to shape up but Texas did not. My question is inspired by Mitt Romney's comparison of the state of California to Greece.
Last stat I could find was 2010 and CA had a 61% of schools failed to meet AYP.
Also says that every year more and more schools join the ranks of failing to meet AYP because the bar is raised each year.

The way it works though is very screwy.
You have a school where 90% pass the state tests. The next year 90% again pass the state tests.
Great school but they achieved 0% AYP (annual yearly progress) because they stayed at 90%; they failed to meet AYP.
Then you have a school where 40% pass the state tests. The next year 45% pass the state tests.
This school met AYP.
But..which school is better ?

Education Week: Proportion of Schools Falling Short on AYP Rises, Report Says
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