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Published on: 3/4/2003
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Susan Agruso, CMS's associate superintendent for instructional accountability, told board members Tuesday that current profiles of CMS schools show that the district will have schools that will have to meet as few as five criteria while some schools will have to meet up to 37 different criteria, depending on the diversity of the schools' students.
Agruso echoed CMS Superintendent Jim Pughsley's warning from last week's release of the state report cards that based on the most recent scores, more than 60 percent of the district's schools would fail under the No Child Left Behind legislation.
The legislation also looks at attendance rates for elementary and middle schools, and graduation rates for high schools, and there is a provision that allows schools that did not meet all its targets but made tremendous growth in those trouble areas to attain the designation.
But the overall response from board members is that CMS is in trouble if it does not find a way for students to make the grade.
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Agruso also told the board that staff members are contesting several provisions under the federal guidelines they feel are detrimental to CMS, such as tough testing of children with disabilities and the return of a comprehensive test for tenth-graders that the district previously eliminated.Federal education officials could consider changes to the legislation, she said.
The presentation left a heavy spell on a meeting that began earlier in the evening when two people spoke about the transfer policy during the public appearance portion of the meeting.
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