Accountability Determinations and required actions Based on their accountability determination, districts and schools must meet a number of annual planning and parent/guardian notification requirements. The tables below outline schools and district responsibilities for each of the accountability categories. Required actions for districts and schools with insufficient data Insufficient data Occurs Planning Parent/guardian notification when requirements requirements A district or school is reported Consider analyzing Disseminate the school report as having insufficient data if the disaggregated data for all card to parents/guardians of all district or school ends in grade student groups to ensure children once available. The PK, K, 1, or 2, is very small, or interventions and supports are notification must include the lacks two full years of data. appropriately aligned to address accountability determinations needs. for the child’s district and school; an explanation of what Review and revise district and the designations means; an school improvement plans with explanation of how parents can respect to the level of become involved in district and implementation of school improvement activities; Massachusetts’ District and information about teacher and quality and right-to-know Standards and Indicators the requirements regarding teacher Turnaround Practices. qualifications. Required actions for districts and schools not requiring assistance or intervention Meeting Targets Occurs Planning Parent/guardian notification when requirements requirements A school is reported as Meeting Consider analyzing Disseminate the school report Targets if the school’s disaggregated data for all card to parents/guardians of all target percentage is student groups to ensure children once available. The 75 percent or higher, its interventions and supports are notification must include the accountability percentile is 11 appropriately aligned to address accountability determinations or higher, all eligible subgroups needs. for the district and school; in the school have a subgroup an explanation of what the percentile of 6 or higher, it Review and revise district and designations means; an graduates more than 66.7 school improvement with explanation of how parents can percent of its students, and the respect to the level of become involved in district and assessment participation rate implementation of school improvement activities;
Accountability Determinations and required actions Based on their accountability determination, districts and schools must meet a number of annual planning and parent/guardian notification requirements. The tables below outline schools and district responsibilities for each of the accountability categories. Required actions for districts and schools with insufficient data Insufficient data Occurs when Planning requirements Parent/guardian notification requirements A district or school is reported as having insufficient data if the district or school ends in grade PK, K, 1, or 2, is very small, or lacks two full years of data. Consider analyzing disaggregated data for all student groups to ensure interventions and supports are appropriately aligned to address needs. Review and revise district and school improvement plans with respect to the level of implementation of Massachusetts’ District Standards and Indicators and the Turnaround Practices. Disseminate the school report card to parents/guardians of all children once available. The notification must include the accountability determinations for the child’s district and school; an explanation of what the designations means; an explanation of how parents can become involved in district and school improvement activities; and information about teacher quality and right-to-know requirements regarding teacher qualifications. Required actions for districts and schools not requiring assistance or intervention Meeting Targets Occurs when Planning requirements Parent/guardian notification requirements A school is reported as Meeting Targets if the school’s target percentage is 75 percent or higher, its accountability percentile is 11 or higher, all eligible subgroups in the school have a subgroup percentile of 6 or higher, it graduates more than 66.7 percent of its students, and the assessment participation rate Consider analyzing disaggregated data for all student groups to ensure interventions and supports are appropriately aligned to address needs. Review and revise district and school improvement with respect to the level of implementation of Disseminate the school report card to parents/guardians of all children once available. The notification must include the accountability determinations for the district and school; an explanation of what the designations means; an explanation of how parents can become involved in district and school improvement activities;
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