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...even as several Cambridge schools slipped to worse designations, many actually improved in making adequte yearly progress when compared to the past. It is only because some schools did not make progress in areas where they have performed weakly in previous years—and because schools remain on the federal watch list unless they make adequate progress for two consecutive years—that this year’s classifications for the Cambridge schools were lower despite the uptick in the number of schools making adequate yearly progress...
...Child Left Behind Act mandates that schools meet annual benchmarks in boosting overall scores and closing gaps among the eight subgroups that it delineates. These subgroups include five races and low-income students. This annual progress is measured on English and math tests...
Each school is thus measured on four indicators—overall improvement for English, subgroup improvement for English, overall improvement for math, and subgroup improvement for math. A school that fails to make progress in any one of these four areas is placed on the federal watch list...
Schools that fail to make adequate progress for two consecutive years in any one of these four areas are tagged as “needing improvement,” meaning that parents must be given the option of sending their child to other schools in the district...
After four consecutive years of failing to make progress in one area, schools are moved to “corrective action,” and can be required to make changes in staffing and curriculum. After five years of failing to make progress, schools are designated as needing “restructuring,” and can be taken over by the state...