Full Text of HR1185 94th General Assembly
HR1185 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The current measure of Adequate Yearly Progress | 3 |
| (AYP) under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB | 4 |
| Act) does not provide for any accounting of students who make | 5 |
| significant progress but not enough progress to meet the | 6 |
| standard; these students are classified as not succeeding, | 7 |
| when, in actuality, in many instances they have progressed | 8 |
| beyond a year's growth; and
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| WHEREAS, The measuring of AYP at 47.5% leaves many children | 10 |
| behind; and
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| WHEREAS, Using an index to calculate AYP has the potential | 12 |
| to address some of the flaws in the NCLB Act; and
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| WHEREAS, An index that measures student progress allows | 14 |
| schools to show movement from one performance level to the next | 15 |
| and credits improvement in student achievement across | 16 |
| different performance levels; and
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| WHEREAS, Prior to a school being sanctioned under the NCLB | 18 |
| Act, a pre-AYP classification should be used to determine if | 19 |
| the school is successful; and
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| WHEREAS, The pre-AYP classification would be determined by | 21 |
| looking at the students as individuals, with the understanding | 22 |
| that individuals achieve at different rates; because | 23 |
| individual students do make progress, an individual student's | 24 |
| progress would be measured to determine if there had been added | 25 |
| value to his or her education; and
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| WHEREAS, This measure would include all students: Regular | 27 |
| Education students, Special Education students, Limited | 28 |
| English Proficient students, and other subgroups; and
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| WHEREAS, This measure would provide accountability to the | 2 |
| NCLB Act and, at the same time, provide for a more precise | 3 |
| measure of the added value of education that the school has | 4 |
| provided; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, Not only will this measure provide schools with a | 6 |
| more accurate level of their progress, but it would also | 7 |
| provide more specific and accurate data needed to move more | 8 |
| students toward the AYP standard; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 |
| we urge the U.S. Department of Education to create a pre-AYP | 12 |
| classification; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| delivered to the U.S. Secretary of Education.
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