Monday, November 12, 2012
The district did not meet statewide standards in 2011-12, but Lincoln-Way Schools were still high-ranking among area districts.
Lincoln-Way School District 210 recently received its annual Illinois District Report Card. According to the report, the district is not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress statewide standards. However, neither is any other high school district in the state, according to Sun-Times Media. Adequate Yearly Progress is determined by student scores on the Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE), participation rates on state assessments and graduation rates. During the 2011-12 academic year, the number of Lincoln-Way students meeting or exceeding state standards dropped, from 72.1 percent in 2010-11 to 68.8 percent in 2011-12. The state average during both years was approximately 51 percent. The state standard is 85 percent. In math, for which…
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Patch breaks down the Frankfort School District Report and talks with Superintendent Tom Hurlburt about his frustration over No Child Left Behind.
This week saw the release of the report cards for Illinois schools, one of the ways the state gauges educational success--and failure--in its school districts. When it comes to the report for Frankfort School District 157-C, Superintendent Tom Hurlburt said, overall, he liked the direction the schools were headed, staying well above the state average when it came to test scores. Patch broke down other areas of the D157-C report card and got Hurlburt's reaction to the assessments. Like Summit Hill School District 161, D157-C did not make its Adequate Yearly Progress goals--the academic standards schools are held to as part of the No Child Left Behind Act--because the level of achievement in reading for students with disabilities was not met…
Two area school districts have run afoul of the controversial law, despite exceeding its standards in all but one area.
In theory, the No Child Left Behind Act--a federal set of academic standards that public schools are measured on--is well intentioned. Unfortunately, those good intentions pave a road to educational hell for many school officials and educators. The standardized testing at the heart of the federal No Child Left Behind law has served as a virtual report card on local schools, and if Illinois schools were assigned a letter grade on those tests, most would be getting Fs. About 80 percent of Illinois schools fail to meet standards under NCLB. READ: D161 Unveils Report Card: How Did It Do? Then there are the cases of Summit Hill School District 161 and Frankfort School District 157-C. Both districts did not meet their overall Adequate Yearly …
Friday, October 28, 2011
Patch takes a look at some of the assessment areas on the Summit Hill school district's report and talks to Interim Superintendent Barb Rains about them.
Just like its students, Illinois school districts are graded and assessed. And that means report cards. Summit Hill School District 161 will release its state report card online on its website later today, but Patch spoke with Interim Superintendent Barb Rains about the report and some of its assessments. Rains said she there were a lot of positives in the report, especially when it came to state testing. The percent of D161 students meeting or exceeding on all state standardized tests increased from 91 percent to 92.1 percent between the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. Those percentages are well above the state's, which were 76.4 percent and 76.5, respectively. READ: D161 Continues to Outpace State in ISAT Scores "I believe our …
Will County Resident
11:07 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Donny, go look at the requirements for the class of 2008. The requirements were 3 years of English, 2 years of math, and 2 years of science. 4 years of English, 3 years of math, and 3 years of science were all increased after I graduated. I was also able to bypass "Reading Seminar" because I took Honors English my freshman year. I do not believe you can do that anymore to get out of the reading … more ›