NC to release school test scores Thursday

Raleigh, N.C. — The report cards are in for North Carolina's public schools.

State school officials will release the annual ABCs of Public Education report at 10 a.m. on Thursday, which shows how students performed on end-of-grade and end-of-course tests taken in grades 3 through 12. Schools will be named as highest and lowest performers.

The state will also release the Annual Measurable Objectives results, which will show how schools in the state performed on specific proficiency targets for each student subgroup. Thanks to a waiver issued by the United States Department of Education, the state will no longer report Adequate Yearly Progress results.

The "all or nothing standard" required by AYP rated overall performance on student reading and mathematics scores required by the No Child Left Behind law.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson said AMOs provide a clearer picture of how a school is performing.

In 2011, graduation rates rose to 77.7 percent, the highest four-year graduation rate ever reported in North Carolina.

Despite the increase, the number of schools meeting state and federal measures dropped last year from 88 percent in 2009-10 to 81.4 percent.

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I get that you don't want to pay for alternative schools so then what is your solution? plenty coups

i didn't say that, i asked the question. i understand your position and honestly i don't know the solution to it. i do know we have a serious parenting problem in our society and it affects many aspects of our day to day lives, schools in this debate. other than putting more taxpayer money toward the problem, what other solutions are there?

for the people
August 2, 2012 12:42 p.m.

'this puts the responsibility on the tax payer rather than the parents. the problem is the parents. i don't disagree with taking the discipline problems out of the general population but why should i have to pay for a parenting problem.'

It just deals with reality. There's no use arguing over who's fault it is much like it would be useless to argue over why a criminal broke the law. But the issue I was responding to was about what to do with problem students who didn't want to be there and who were disrupting others. I get that you don't want to pay for alternative schools so then what is your solution?

Plenty Coups
August 2, 2012 12:19 p.m.

The process of grading the schools has become a career for many. Millions of potential teacher salary dollars is going to administrators. I guess if you can't teach then administrate. It's lucrative.

Z Man
August 2, 2012 11:54 a.m.

less is more said to unclejoeraleigh....I disagree with your statement that the best teachers is defined as getting more out of a student than expected..

So how do you define the best teachers, getting less out of the students?

Take a first grader who seems not to be paying attention and looking at the birds outside the window. A bad teacher says...Johnnie, pay attention how are you gonna learn to count? ...a good teacher teaches the kid to count the birds.

My father was a Science teacher and principal in Charlotte for 30 plus years. He retired early because he could no longer hire teachers he wanted to hire,(Good Teachers) he had to hire based on factors other than being good, like skin color and such, not the content of their character and ability to teach.

Constitutional Government Rocks
August 2, 2012 11:53 a.m.

I would be in favor of sending discipline problems to alternative schools. But right now we are underfunding this option.....plenty coups

this puts the responsibility on the tax payer rather than the parents. the problem is the parents. i don't disagree with taking the discipline problems out of the general population but why should i have to pay for a parenting problem.

for the people
August 2, 2012 11:33 a.m.