More Oklahoma schools, districts than ever ‘need improvement'
As federal standards steadily make it tougher for schools to meet academic performance requirements, more and more schools and school districts in Oklahoma have found themselves on the notorious list of schools in need of improvement.
Six times more school districts than ever before are on the state's list of districts in need of improvement based on student performance during the 2010-11 school year, members of the state Education Board learned at their meeting Thursday.
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Schools needing improvement
These five school districts are on the needs improvement list for the second consecutive year.
• Lawton Public Schools
Hughes County
• Wetumka Public Schools
Kay County
• Ponca City Public Schools
Oklahoma County
• Oklahoma City Public Schools
Tulsa County
• Tulsa Public Schools
• Stilwell Public Schools
• Westville Public Schools
Atoka County
• Atoka Public Schools
• Caney Public Schools
Beckham County
• Elk City Public Schools
Bryan County
• Achille Public Schools
Bryan County
• Bennington Public Schools
Caddo County
• Anadarko Public Schools
Canadian County
• El Reno Public Schools
Cherokee County
• Tahlequah Public Schools
Choctaw County
• Hugo Public Schools
Cleveland County
• Norman Public Schools
Creek County
• Bristow Public Schools
• Sapulpa Public Schools
Delaware County
• Kansas Public Schools
Garfield County
• Enid Public Schools
Haskell County
• Kinta Public Schools
Hughes County
• Holdenville Public Schools
Jackson County
• Altus Public Schools
Johnston County
• Mill Creek Public Schools
Kay County
• Newkirk Public Schools
Latimer County
• Panola Public Schools
Le Flore County
• Howe Public Schools
Logan County
• Coyle Public Schools
Marshall County
• Madill Public Schools
Mayes County
• Adair Public Schools
• Chouteau-Mazie Public Schools
Muskogee County
• Muskogee Public Schools
• Webbers Falls Public Schools
Okfuskee County
• Graham Public Schools
• Weleetka Public Schools
Oklahoma County
• Midwest City-Del City Schools
• Millwood Public Schools
• Putnam City Public Schools
• Western Heights Public Schools
Okmulgee County
• Beggs Public Schools
• Okmulgee Public Schools
Pawnee County
• Pawnee Public Schools
Pittsburg County
• Haileyville Public Schools
• McAlester Public Schools
• Pittsburg Public Schools
Pottawatomie County
• Shawnee Public Schools
Rogers County
• Chelsea Public Schools
Seminole County
• Bowlegs Public Schools
• Butner Public Schools
• Wewoka Public Schools
Stephens County
• Duncan Public Schools
• Empire Public Schools
Texas County
• Guymon Public Schools
Tillman County
• Grandfield Public Schools
Tulsa County
• Broken Arrow Public Schools
• Jenks Public Schools
• Skiatook Public Schools
• Union Public Schools
Wagoner County
• Okay Public Schools
• Wagoner Public Schools
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And the list of individual schools in need of improvement has grown from 90 schools in the 2009-10 school year to 227 in the 2010-11 school year.
The drastic increase of schools and districts that are failing to meet benchmarks for student performance, attendance and graduation rates, has the state seeking exemptions from federal law that impose sanctions on the
State schools Superintendent Janet Barresi said the increase of schools on the list is mostly due to increasing standards.
When the No Child Left Behind Act was first implemented in 2002, schools and districts were required to have Academic Performance Index scores of 648 in math and 622 in reading.
By the 2010-11 school year those benchmarks had increased to 1074 in math and 1060 in reading.
“We are supposed to be at 1500 by 2014,” Barresi said. “We were humming along ... then all of a sudden we're expected to go up exponentially.”
Bill Price, one of several newly appointed members of the state Education Board, remarked that the best school in the state had an overall Academic Performance Index score of 1460. In three years, if the school doesn't improve, it wouldn't be able to meet the new benchmarks.
Schools and districts on the needs improvement list must offer students free remedial tutoring by outside sources. Parents can transfer their students from the failing schools.
Of the 16,201 students eligible in the 2010-11 school year for school choice, only 303 applied to transfer to another school and only 194 actually transferred out of their poor-performing school.
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