Why is South Carolina projected to have a higher percentage of schools not meeting AYP than other states?
Under No Child Left Behind, each state was allowed to set its own version of what “proficiency” means. Some states, including South Carolina, have proficiency standards that are much higher than other states. That’s why there is a wide disparity among states when it comes to the percentages of their schools that don’t meet AYP. For example, 99.2 percent of Iowa’s schools met AYP, but only 13 percent of Florida’s schools met AYP. South Carolina set a high proficiency rate under the 1998 EAA state accountability system, a level that independent analysts have rated among the nation’s toughest.
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