Adopting Amendments to the Virginia Consolidated State Application Accountability Plan as Permitted in Section 9401 of the Federal Law
Resolution Number 2006-5
March 22, 2006
The Board of Education adopts amendments to the Virginia Consolidated State Application Accountability Plan as permitted in Section 9401 of the federal law in the following seven major areas: (1) reversing the order of the school choice and supplemental educational services (SES) sanctions; (2) targeting choice and SES only to the subgroup and individual students not making AYP; (3) identifying for improvement only those schools that fail to make AYP for two consecutive years in the same subject and subgroup; (4) including the passing scores of all retests of SOL assessments required for graduation in the calculation of AYP; (5) including test scores from only certain grade levels in the 2006-2007 AYP performance calculation for subgroups; (6) extending flexibility in AYP calculation policies for students with disabilities; and (7) modifying testing and AYP calculation policies for limited English proficient (LEP) students.
Mark E. Emblidge, President
Board of Education
Adopted in the Minutes of the Virginia Board of Education
March 22, 2006