Leaving Everyone Behind
We’ve received two interesting letters from the school district last week. One was to let us know that Caitlyn scored well during testing last spring and would we like to consider doing more testing? The other was a notice about how the district isn’t doing so well according to the standards established by No Child Left Behind. According to the letter, school districts need to meet a set standard (which was left undefined) in up to 111 categories to qualify as making “Adequate Yearly Progress”. (Is it progress if you meet the standard two years in a row? Or is …