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regular testing program. In fact, 18 percent of the RCES students who took the sixth-grade LPT in 1996 were special-needs students. (The state average percentage for special education in public schools is 11 percent.)
The teachers and administration have developed strategies to insure greater competitiveness on the first administration of the LPT. Fifth and sixth-grade students will be tested with a LPT predictor test to determine which students may be in danger of not passing all three sections of the LPT. Special tutorial classes will be provided for students who need extra help. Teachers will provide students with instruction and testing across the curriculum which matches the format and style of the LPT.
To gain parental support a sixthgrade parents meeting is being planned which will help convey information about the test and its importance. Sixth-grade teachers will be provided additional training on curriculum alignment and instruction. However, insuring on-going high results will require a more sustained program.
Reading and mathematics remedial services in 1992 were staffed with five remedial teachers and two aides covering reading in kindergarten through the twelfth grade, and mathematics in grades 1-7. Due to federal cuts and tight local funding, currently we have only one remedial teacher and three aides covering reading in grades one through seven and mathematics in grades five, six and seven.
Our 1992 investment in remedial instruction in current dollars was $210,353, and today our investment in
91.7%