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5Dec/110

Lowest Achieving Schools, Part 1: What is a Low-Achieving School?

What is a low-achieving school and what are the lowest-achieving schools in Connecticut? It’s a common question that we hear at CCER. Unfortunately, there is not a simple answer to that seemingly simple question.

The CT State Department of Education currently uses two different metrics to categorize schools by academic performance.

Tagged as: Adequate Yearly Progress, Assessment, Extended Learning Time, In Need of Improvement, Lowest Achieving Schools, Persistently Low Achieving, Turnaround schools Continue reading

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