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<p class=MsoNormal>Courtesy of today’s (August 3, 2010) Spokesman-Review.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Most Idaho schools hitting goals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>State releases progress reports for 2009-2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Alison Boggs, The Spokesman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>About two-thirds of the public schools in Idaho are hitting
adequate yearly progress goals under the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, the
state’s Education Department reported Monday.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The department released scores from the Idaho Standards
Achievement Tests that show about 62 percent of state schools reached progress
goals during the 2009-2010 school year. Last year, 66 percent of schools hit
the benchmark, but the standards became more difficult to reach this year. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Only three of North Idaho’s 13 districts hit the goal
this year – Kootenai, Avery and West Bonner – but Coeur
d’Alene School District Superintendent Hazel Bauman said the state report
doesn’t show the progress each district has made. Even if a district
misses a goal by 1 or 2 percentage points, she said, “you still get a big
‘no’ as far as did you make the state goal. We have made huge gains
since last year.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As was the case with many districts, the Coeur d’Alene
district did not hit proficiency goals for reading and math among students with
disabilities. It also did not hit those goals for Native American students. The
Post Falls School District and the Lakeland School District in Rathdrum also
did not hit the mark due to students with disabilities not hitting the
proficiency goals, the state report showed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To achieve adequate yearly progress, a school must meet
achievement goals set by the Idaho State Board of Education in 41 target areas
during the school year, a news release from the state Department of Education
said. Those target areas include the general student population, students with
disabilities and students with limited English proficiency. If goals are not
met in one of the target areas, the entire school fails to achieve adequate
yearly progress. The same applies to the district’s achievement, averaged
across the entire student populations within those 41 target areas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In addition, student achievement goals were increased in the
2009-2010 school year. To make adequate progress, 85.6 percent of students in a
school had to reach grade-level proficiency in reading, compared with 78
percent last year. In math, 83 percent of students had to hit the goals,
compared with only 70 percent last year, the state said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The state highlighted several “success stories,”
including Sandpoint’s Farmin Stidwell Elementary School in the Lake Pend
Oreille School District, which hit the goal for the first time. With 630
students, the school has struggled to move all of its target groups to meet
proficiency goals. The school hit its goal due in part to after-school tutoring
by classroom teachers, ongoing assessments and more focused attention on
specific student needs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><img width=733 height=776 id="Picture_x0020_0"
src="cid:image003.jpg@01CB32D9.264502A0"
alt="MoscowSchoolDistrict_AYP_080310.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Seeya round
town, Moscow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Nine
tenths of education is encouragement.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Anatole
France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:white'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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