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July 12, 2012

ECPS board reviews new accountability model

Staff Writer MIRANDA BAINES

TARBORO — The Edgecombe County School Board (ECPS) at its Monday night meeting reviewed the new state accountability model for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year.

Janet Morris, Director of Accountability for ECPS, gave a presentation on the new state accountability model, which will go into effect in the upcoming school year. The new accountability model follows the U.S. Department of Education’s approval of North Carolina’s waiver request for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), the accountability model established under the No Child Left Behind Act.

“That typical met or not met standard for AYP that our schools have had to follow is no longer in place,” said Morris. “We’ll still have to report by subgroup, but there will not be one overall met or not met category any longer.”

The new accountability model will focus on “achievement gaps,” said Morris. Under the new accountability model, schools will be measured by three components: performance indicators, such as graduate rates and end of grade/ course assessments; annual measurable objectives (AMO), which will replace adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets; and school growth, which will be based on educator value-added assessment system (EVAAS), taking into account students’ performance throughout their entire testing history.

 “We’re moving into a direction where there’s more reasonable expectations for achievement as opposed to five years ago when we had to get to 100 percent (AYP achievement) by 2014-2015,” said ECPS Superintendent John Farrelly. “Now we’re looking at growth in each of those areas [mentioned above], so there is some calming effect with that.”

Farrelly also acknowledged that the new accountability model is causing “uneasiness at the administrative level as well as in the classroom” because “we’re moving towards an accountability model where we’re measuring student performance, and that’s part of the teacher evaluation.”

Dr. Evelyn Johnson, board member, expressed her opinion that the new state accountability model will be a more effective, comprehensive model than the AYP model under No Child Left Behind. She stressed the importance of parents’ understanding of the new accountability model.

“We’ve got to make sure that the parents understand this, because too often the schools are expected to do everything. This is a partnership, and I’m hoping that the more we learn that we push it out to the parents so they can understand it clearly, so we can begin to have those partnerships, and…let them [parents] see they have a role in making this all happen,” said Johnson.  “We want our children to come to school ready, not to get ready.”

For the 2010-2011 school year, only two out of 13 public schools in Edgecombe County – Edgecombe Early College High and Princeville Montessori – made AYP. AYP results from each of the state’s school districts for the 2011-2012 school year will be presented on August 2.

The Washington County Public Schools saw a significant increase in AYP test scores under Farrelly’s administration. According to an article published in “The Roanoke Beacon” on July 3, Farrelly promised an improvement in test results from the 2010-2011 school year and delivered, as all five public schools in Washington County met expected growth and four achieved high growth for the 2011-2012 school year.

In addition to a new accountability model, the state is implementing new math and language arts (common core) standards for the upcoming school year. Dr. Renee Franklin, Edgecombe County Public Schools’ (ECPS) Assistant Superintendent for Educational Program Services, discussed the new common core standards at Monday night’s board meeting.

“This is a monumental task,” she said. “It is all about providing a more rigorous, a more in-depth, a more applicable curriculum.”

    

 

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