What happens if a school isn making “Adequate Yearly Progress?
If a school gets the same failing grade (the same subgroup fails the same subject) two years in a row, it enters “program improvement.” Of Califor-nia’s 8,000 schools, 1,209 are now “in program improvement.” The first year “in program improvement,” the school has to make an improvement plan and notify parents that they have the right to transfer their children to a school that passed its AYP test. The sending school will pay for transportation out of its federal Title 1 funds-money to boost achievement for low-income students. The second year, the school has to pay for transportation or tutoring-parents can choose. The third year, the school district has to step in and make staff or curriculum changes. The fourth year, the state has to take the school over and replace the staff, run the school, or turn it over to a private company.
