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The Arkansas Department of Education’s News Conference on Smart Accountability will begin at
10:30 a.m. on Friday, October 9, 2009.
Conference Call-In Number: (616) 347-8200
Access Code:125536#
Please remember to mute your telephone and/or your computer microphone until the question and answer
portion of the presentation.
For Technical Assistance:Kevin Briggs, (501) 683-5945Gayle Morris (501) 682-4217
Smart Accountability
Differentiated accountability allows the state to treat schools placed in school improvement under NCLB differently with:
• New designations that better reflect the degree to which schools are meeting “adequate yearly progress”
• Interventions that target the indentified schools’ needs
Smart Accountability LabelsArkansas’s plan utilizes six overall categories:
• Achieving Schools
• Alert Status Schools
• Targeted Improvement Schools
• Whole School Improvement Schools
• Intensive Targeted Improvement Schools
• Intensive Whole School Improvement Schools
• State Directed Improvement Schools
Label: Achieving Schools
These schools meet all standards for Adequate Yearly Progress for this
year.
Label: Alert
For the first year, these schools did not meet all standards for Adequate
Yearly Progress.
Label: Targeted Improvement
Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the annual measurable goal (AMO) for 25 percent or fewer groups and do not miss the AMO for
combined population resulting in school improvement years one through three (1-3) will
be labeled as in “Targeted Improvement.” TI-1, TI-2 and TI-3 Corrective Action
This correlates to School Improvement Years 1, 2 and 3; Year 3 correlates to the corrective action
phase under No Child Left Behind.
Label: Whole School Improvement
Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the
AMO for combined population and/or more than 25 percent of groups resulting in school
improvement years one through three (1-3) will be labeled as in “Whole School Improvement.”
WSI-1, WSI-2 and WSI-3 Corrective Action
This correlates to School Improvement Years 1, 2 and 3; Year 3 correlates to the corrective action
phase under No Child Left Behind.
Label: Targeted Intensive Improvement
Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the
AMO for 25 percent or fewer groups and do not miss AMO for combined population resulting in school improvement for four (4) or more years
will be labeled as in “Targeted Intensive Improvement.”
TII-4, TII-5: RestructuringThis correlates to School Improvement Years 4
and 5, which was in the restructuring phase under No Child Left Behind.
Label: Whole School Intensive Improvement
Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the
AMO for combined population and/or more than 25 percent groups resulting in school
improvement years four (4) or more years will be labeled as in “Whole School Intensive
Improvement.”WSII-4, WSII-5: Restructuring
This correlates to School Improvement Years 4 and 5, which was in the restructuring phase under
No Child Left Behind.
Label: State Directed
Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy after TI-5 or
WSII-5 will be designated as in “State Directed” status.
Available Interventions
A complete list of interventions for each category of schools is included in the
Smart Accountability Handbook, which is posted on the ADE’s main Web site,
http://ArkansasEd.org.
Schools Classification
498 Achieving
176 Alert
140 Targeted Improvement Schools
113 Whole School Improvement Schools
32 Targeted Intensive Improvement Schools
64 Whole School Intensive Improvement Schools
58 State Directed Schools
2009 Adequately Yearly Progress Report
Districts Classification
213 Meets Standards
16 Alert
8 District Improvement Year 1
13 District Improvement Year 2
3 District Improvement Year 3
1 District Improvement Year 4
District Summary
• News Release
• AYP Primer
• District and School Reports
• PowerPoint
• Recording of Presentation
Arkansas Department of Education Web Site http://ArkansasEd.org
