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AYP evaluations, which came about as part of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), were published for the first time this year.
Many did not fare so well. Only 55 percent of the state schools passed. Still worse, a mere 18 of the states 132 school divisions met AYP standards.
Department of Education official Charles Pyle said that schools have voiced their concerns about this and two have filed an official appeal. This appeal process, he said, is limited to schools which are labeled as Title I and thus identified for corrective action. While the high school is not under this classification the elementary school is.
Rave Tupper, executive director of Human Resources and Instruction for the county schools, said that meeting the definition of AYP is simply a classification itself and has no
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