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The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 enacted some of the most sweeping changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). NCLB requires states to adopt challenging academic content and student achievement standards that apply to all schools and all children in the state. NCLB requires states to administer a set of high-quality yearly student academic assessments in math and reading or language arts. NCLB requires states to develop a single statewide accountability system that applies to all public schools. The state will develop a definition of adequate yearly progress (AYP) to measure the progress of students in meeting the academic standards in math and reading or language arts.
Title I is one part out of ten included in the NCLB. Title I is the part of No Child Left Behind that supports programs in schools and school districts to improve the learning of children from low-income families. The purpose of Title I is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards as measured by state academic assessments.
Alaska students in grades 3 through 10 take the state's standards-based assessments in reading, writing, and math. The reading and writing scores are combined to produce a single language arts score for NCLB. Schools and districts are held accountable for student scores in language arts and math and for their students' participation rate in taking assessments.
There are 31 categories of accountability. Students whom are assessed are categorized in ten ways. One is schoolwide. Then there are the nine subgroups: African-American, Alaska Native/American Indian, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, Multi-Ethnic, Economically Disadvantaged, Students with Disabilities, and Limited English Proficient Students. When you multiply the three fields; language arts scores, math scores and participation rate, by the ten ways (above) and you have 30 categories. The 31st category of accountability is the graduation rate for schools with a 12th grade and the attendance rate for other schools.
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