Today we continue our analysis of which Ohio students will be affected by Race to the Top funds should the state win.
This time, we are examining the data from yet another angle of performance ? Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP.
(Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is an accountability metric that is the hallmark of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. For the purposes of this analysis, we examined whether Ohio schools met their 2009 overall AYP goals, which combines reading and math.)
The table below shows that 31 percent of all Ohio students in schools (district and charter) that did not meet AYP will not receive RttT funds. When the data is broken down to look at district and charter schools separately (not shown in the table), 32 percent of students in district schools will not receive RttT funds. Charter students fare better ? just 18 percent of students in charter schools that missed AYP will not receive RttT funds.
While a majority of students in schools that did not meet AYP will be receiving RttT funds, one third of all students is still a significant number ? it equates to over 230,000 students.
So far, we've found that using AYP as a performance metric shows the largest percentage of students in need (those in schools not making AYP) NOT signing up to RttT.
This could be because AYP measures growth, not achievement results ? and schools that are otherwise high-performing can fail to make AYP with particular subgroups of students and therefore fail to make overall AYP.
Flypaper readers ? have you discovered any similar or interesting trends in your state's RttT distribution plan? Let us know!
-Fordham Ohio Team