Sunday, September 9, 2012
The high school made Adequate Yearly Progress and is off the priority school list, according to the district and state.
The Michigan Department of Education has congratulated New Haven High School for substantial academic improvement, the district recently announced. "It was no surprise to us that your students' academic achievement improved. We've been impressed with the level of commitment your staff, students, and parents have demonstrated this past school year to help all of your students become career- and college-ready and, therefore, improve their opportunity to be successful in life," according to an Aug. 27 letter from the state. The letter from Noel Cole, supervisor of Coordinated School Health and Safety Programs and Bob Higgins, project manager of Safe and Supportive Schools Grant, is addressed to New Haven Community Schools Superintendent …
Saturday, August 4, 2012
The new Michigan Department of Education requirement will cause L'Anse Creuse Public Schools to have to set aside $150,000 for transportation and other associated costs.
A requirement mandated by the Michigan Department of Education for schools with large gaps in performance will mean the possibility of increased school-to-school transfers in L'Anse Creuse Public Schools. As part of a set of requirements for state-named "Focus Schools," districts will–beginning in the 2012-13 school year–have to allow a number of students to move out of any school in that category and into another designated school within the district. The requirement only applies to schools that are receiving Title I dollars–a federal program that helps to fund schools with high percentages of students from low-income families. Districts are left to decide how many spots will be open for each school, but must provide transportation for …
Friday, August 3, 2012
Despite all but one L'Anse Creuse school making AYP this year, the Michigan Department of Education reports the district as a whole failed to meet state standards.
When the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) released its school report cards Thursday, which includes the list of schools meeting state standards through Adequate Yearly Progress, L'Anse Creuse Public Schools was one of 262 districts statewide to not make AYP – a fact surprising to district officials. “It is interesting because as a district we have always made AYP and maybe a school or two did not make it,” said Deputy Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Edward Okuniewski. “This is the first time that all comprehensive schools made it, except one, and the district did not made it." Okuniewski said this could partially be attributed to the role graduation rates now play in calculating AYP. While L’Anse Creuse High School and …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Data from the Michigan Department of Education shows the Class of 2013 at Anchor Bay, L'Anse Creuse and New Haven did better on the Michigan Merit Exam than their predecessors.
The majority of Chesterfield and New Baltimore area students continue to score above state average on the Michigan Merit Exam, but the number of students actually passing the exam suggests there is much work to be done, according to a report released by the Michigan Department of Education this morning. The performance of students this year takes into account a test that is more difficult to pass, based on new cut scores implemented last year by the state. Across the state, the largest gains on the MME occurred in reading and writing, where reading saw an average one-year increase of 3 percent and writing an average one-year increase of 2.5 percent. These increases show roughly 56 percent of tested students are proficient in reading and 50…
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Changes will take place during the 2014-2015 school year.
Paper and pencil for statewide tests will soon be a thing of the past for Michigan students as they prepare to take a new online assessment detailed during a roundtable Monday by the Michigan Department of Education. The exam will replace the standardized MEAP and MME assessments in math, reading and writing, beginning during the 2014-2015 school year. The MEAP and MME assessments will still be given in science and social studies. But unlike the tests students are used to, the new statewide exam will not have a common set of questions. Subsequent questions will be determined based on how a student answers the previous one. A correct answer yields a harder one. An incorrect responce yields an easier question. The goal is to have students …
The new online assessment will replace the MEAP and MME tests in math, reading and writing beginning during the 2014-15 school year.
Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, students throughout Michigan will be given an online exam to test their knowledge of core subjects. The test replaces the Michigan Merit Exam (MME) and the Michigan Educational Assessment Progam (MEAP) in all subjects except social science and science. Called Smarter Balanced, the exam was produced by The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a state-led effort to provide consistent and comparable standards, aligned to the Common Core State Standards, in English language arts, literacy and mathematics. Smarter Balanced recently released a Technology Readiness Tool for districts to measure readiness to move to an online assessment program. Martineau said only about 6 percent of districts have taken …
Friday, August 26, 2011
The school will implement changes this school year to improve academics after being on the list for two consecutive years, according to the district.
For the second consecutive year, New Haven High School was named on the state's Persistently Lowest Achieving School list, according to the Michigan Department of Education's Friday announcement. The high school, which has about 370 students from New Haven and Macomb, Chesterfield, Lenox and Ray townships, was named after review of "student achievement over two years, academic improvement over three or four years; whether a school made Adequate Yearly Progress status over the past two years; and whether a school had a graduation rate below 60 percent for three years in a row," according to the state. New Haven Community Schools Superintendent Keith Wunderlich said Friday the district has a 200-page plan to turn around the high school in …
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11:58 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Not to mention starving the police and fire department too. And now we are asked for a tax hike. It really is easy to figure out. more ›