Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Although new data suggests the possibility of a growing performance gap between West Bloomfield students, their schools are likely exempt from certain new standards which affect nearby districts.
West Bloomfield Schools with large gaps in student achievement, as gauged by the Michigan Department of Education, will apparently not be required to facilitate much student-shifting between schools. Last week's release of school report cards, which includes the list of public schools meeting state standards through Adequate Yearly Progress, came with controversy in some local school districts. As part of a set of requirements for state-named "Focus Schools," districts have to allow a number of students to move out of any school in that category and into another designated school within the district beginning in the 2012-13 school year. That requirement only applies to schools that are receiving federal tax money from a program named Title…
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Because Adequate Yearly Progress now has more stringent requirements for a school district to pass, West Bloomfield and Walled Lake Consolidated failed to meet the mark, even though a vast majority of their schools did.
Today the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) released its school report cards, which includes the list of schools meeting state standards through Adequate Yearly Progress. And among the most successful are Keith Elementary and Twin Beach Elementary in Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. Both are listed as "reward schools" - a new designation from the state - meaning they are in the top five percent of schools in Michigan and have made significant gains in academic progess during recent years. Commerce Elementary and Oakley Park Elementary, from Walled Lake Consolidated, also made it to the list, while no West Bloomfield district schools made the cut. “We applaud the hard work and achievement of the educators and students in our Reward …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Officials say plummeting scores may affect more than individual students as federal benchmarks loom this spring.
Parents, students and the community may be startled by plummeting MEAP (Michigan Education Assessment Program) results, but Farmington Public Schools officials have seen this train coming. Officials were told last year that the Michigan Dept. of Education (DOE) would raise "cut" scores – the passing scores that distinguish between whether a student is advanced, proficient, partially proficient or not proficient in certain subjects. As a result, students who were judge "proficient" in 2011 are now "partially proficient", and more students are ranking "not proficient". "I think the main goal of the state doing this right now," said Kristin Gekiere, the district's director of assessment and school improvement, "is they want the students to…
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Monday, August 15, 2011
As Farmington High improves its ranking in the annual assessment, Harrison and North drop.
While the majority of Farmington public schools met targets for annual achievement under federal No Child Left Behind legislation, three Farmington public high schools did not. Harrison, North Farmington and Farmington Central all failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), according to reports issued by the Michigan Department of Education today. Farmington Central, serving students ages 16-19 in an alternative setting, has been targeted for school improvement. At Harrison and North, the subgroup of students with disabilities did not meet academic progress targets. When one or more of the subgroups identified by the federal government fails, the school is identified as not meeting AYP. The district's success story lies in Farmington …
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Harrison High School
29995 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
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North Farmington High School
32900 W 13 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
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Farmington High School
32000 Shiawassee Rd, Farmington, MI
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Farmington Central High School
30415 Shiawassee St, Farmington, MI
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kathie
4:14 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
you are either a teacher or perhaps married to one. I as a tax payer with children trapped in the walled lake school system, I as a non-teacher, non-benefactor of public school tax dollars am anxiously awaiting some long over due improvements to the overall curriculum that walled lake has found to be acceptable! more ›