A-F Accountability

Posted: Tue, 11/22/2011 - 4:27pm Updated: Tue, 01/31/2012 - 11:03am

The A-F Accountability model is designed to raise the bar for school accountability to drive student academic success. Indiana's new A-F Accountability model holds schools to higher standards and provides a more accurate picture of school performance by incorporating student academic growth, graduation rates, as well as college and career readiness variables as measures of school success. A-F Accountability eliminates category placements which were once awarded to schools under Public Law 221 (P.L. 221) and replaces them with easy-to-understand letter grades. Under this new accountability model, Indiana strives to improve transparency so that parents and community members better recognize how well Indiana schools are performing and leading students to achieve positive academic outcomes.

The State Board of Education voted and approved Indiana's proprosed A-F Accountability model on November 7, 2011. The State Board of Education's vote initiated the rule-making process. At this time, the A-F Accountability model is still in a proposed stage and has not been written into State Rule. The following documents summarize the proprosed A-F Accountability model: 

 

Public Law 221

Public Law 221 (P.L. 221) is the state law by which Indiana's state accountablility model is authorized.  Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, Indiana will replace the existing P.L. 221 metrics with the new A-F accountability model in order to determine a school or school corporation's P.L. 221 status.  Please click HERE for past P.L. 221 results or more information on P.L. 221.

 

Adequate Yearly Progress

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is the mechanism by which each school and school corporation's progress towards satisfying the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is tracked.  AYP is a federal accountability system that is designed to ensure that 100% of all students and all student subgroups are proficient in both English and Math by 2014. Please click HERE for more information on AYP or to view previous AYP results.