Quality Counts 2005: No Small Change
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Standards and Accountability
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How We Graded | Sources & Notes
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G = Graded; U = Ungraded.
2Education Week used the most recently available school report cards in each state as of Oct. 22, 2004. Please see the Sources and Notes for report card years by state.
4State has separate school report cards and No Child Left Behind Act report cards with accountability data. Data are on No Child Left Behind report cards only.
8Washington state and New Hampshire make disaggregated data available through other published reports and are not included in the U.S. total.
9Column refers to states that use additional information to rate schools beyond that required by federal law for AYP, or that apply a separate rating to schools statewide in addition to AYP ratings. For example, a state may have a method of assigning letter grades to schools based on the schools' performance on statewide tests, or may require that schools meet criteria in addition to meeting AYP in order to receive high ratings.
10Ratings based on state-developed criteria are assigned biennially.
STATE SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY -30% OF GRADE
  State holds schools accountable for performance (2004-05)
High school report cards include disaggregated graduation/ dropout rates2,U State has a statewide student-identification system (2004)U State assigns ratings to all schoolsG
Based on adequate yearly progress Based on additional state-developed criteria9
New York  
Louisiana 4
Massachusetts  
Ohio  
West Virginia    
Florida 4
New Mexico    
South Carolina  
Kentucky     10
Indiana   2005-06
Maryland    
Delaware
Georgia
Oklahoma    
Michigan  
California    
Hawaii    
Illinois    
Tennessee  
New Jersey    
Virginia  
Washington 8  
Nevada  
Colorado  
Alabama
North Carolina  
Arizona  
Oregon 4
Mississippi  
Pennsylvania    
Wisconsin    
Kansas      
Idaho      
South Dakota  
Texas
Connecticut   2005-06  
Minnesota
Utah      
Arkansas  
Missouri    
Maine      
Rhode Island    
Vermont    
Alaska    
North Dakota    
Nebraska    
Wyoming  
Montana    
District of Columbia      
New Hampshire 8    
Iowa      
U.S. 23 25 51 26
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