NCLB/Education YES!
Welcome to Macomb
ISD’s web site on No Child Left Behind
and Education Yes! This web site is
intended to be a source of information,
as well as a place to access other
resources on these two accountability
programs.
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NCLB is a 1,000+
page legal document with tremendous
implications for schools and districts.
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Education Yes! is
a comprehensive accreditation system to
address school quality.
The employees of
Macomb ISD are here to help community
members,
parents,
educators and administrators understand the legal
requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB),
the federal law signed in January, 2002,
and Education Yes!, Michigan’s new
accreditation program. Understanding the
components of Education Yes! is
important for all educators and
administrators.
The No Child Left
Behind Act (NCLB), signed by President
Bush in January, 2002, represents an
expansion of the federal role in K-12
education. It is the most sweeping law
to impact education since the 1965
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
signed by President Johnson.
The No Child Left
Behind Act is a comprehensive plan that
challenges public schools to reach for
excellence and improve student
achievement. The purpose of NCLB is to
close the student achievement gap by
holding schools accountable. Its intent
is make sure that all students
have academic success. Therefore NCLB
requires schools to pay particular
attention to students who have had a
history of poor academic achievement.
These students are students of color,
with disabilities and who live in
poverty. NCLB is a legal document of
over 1000 pages with many
ramifications for schools.
Education Yes!
is
Michigan’s accreditation program that
contains the NCLB requirements and other
expectations for Michigan schools.
Michigan has always had high
expectations for its students. Under
NCLB and Education Yes! the measure of
progress in the area of achievement is
called Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).
Although AYP is based on the achievement
of students it is primarily
designed to measure progress of schools.
Education Yes! looks at MEAP data in two
different ways as well as school
performance indicators. It is a system
to measure student achievement with
multiple measures and multiple years of
data.
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information:
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