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According to NCLB half of Guilford County charters are not meeting AYP - Greensboro Charter Schools | Examiner.com

According to NCLB half of Guilford County charters are not meeting AYP - Greensboro Charter Schools | Examiner.com:


According to NCLB half of Guilford County charters are not meeting AYP

All charter schools and public schools in North Carolina must meet their Adequately Yearly Progress or AYP. According to No Child Left Behind (“NCLB”) students in grades 3-8 must not only pass their required state reading and math exams but each year they must make progress on these exams. If a school does not meet one of their targets they did not meet AYP. AYP has high stakes and is a measuring tool used by the U.S. Department of Education to determine if the use of Title I funds has been spent well.
This accountability tool for assists educators, administrators,