Newsletters 2013-14 Focus newsletter, [1] fall | Seite 11

A N O K A
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should submit requests to Sarah
Kriewall, Employee Services, AnokaHennepin Schools, 2727 N. Ferry St.,
Anoka, MN 55303-1650. Please include
your child’s name, the school your child
attends, the information you are requesting, and the names of the teachers or
paraprofessionals for whom you would
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Multiple Measurement
Ratings still in place over
Adequate Yearly Progress
As a result of the Minnesota’s 2012 No
Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver approval,
the Minnesota Department of Education
(MDE) created Multiple Measurement
Rating (MMR), a new system of school
recognition, accountability and support.
The state’s goal with this new system is to
reduce the achievement gap by 50 percent
in by 2018.
Under NCLB, school districts were
required to meet Adequate Yearly Progress
(AYP) targets while also being required to
set aside 20 percent of their federal Title I
money at each qualifying school. This
money was to be used to provide parents
the option of getting free tutoring for their
children or transferring them to another
school if their school was under sanctions
for not making AYP targets.
Under the new MMR system, the
money that had been set aside is being
used to strengthen programs in schools
with the greatest need. AYP is still being
calculated, but it is not be used for
accountability purposes and sanctions for
Title I schools.
As the name implies, MMR uses
multiple measures to gauge school
performance in four areas:
• Did the school meet its performance
target?
• Did the individual students meet
their growth target? Put more
simply, are students making
expected progress?
• Did the school make progress closing its overall achievement gaps?
• In the case of high schools, did the
school increase its graduation rate?
The most positive change for schools
and school districts is that student growth
is considered among the measurements.
Using these multiple measures based
upon data from 2010 and 2011, MDE has
designated Reward, Focus and Priority
Schools.
Reward Schools are among the
highes е