Raleigh — Local reporting of preliminary Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), initially scheduled for July 17, has been delayed until 2 p.m., July 18.
This delay is necessary because final approval of North Carolina’s NCLB Workbook has not been granted by the U.S. Department of Education at this time. Elements of this workbook have a significant impact on the programming necessary to generate AYP results for individual schools.
The US Department of Education has indicated that North Carolina should receive verbal approval of its workbook in time for a Tuesday, July 18, release.
On Tuesday, local school districts will release AYP results for their individual schools. The results for elementary and middle schools will be based only on reading. AYP status based on mathematics will not be available until October 5. Results for high schools will be based on reading and mathematics. New mathematics assessments in grades three through eight are the reason for the delay in mathematics reporting in this grade span.
The Department of Public Instruction will provide a central web page that provides links to each local school district’s AYP reports. That site will be located at www.ncpublicschools.org/nclb/abcayp/ayp/.