No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) District Report: 2005-2006
Preston Public Schools
The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 requires a statewide school accountability system. As part of this system, school districts receiving federal dollars based on the percentage of district students in poverty (referred to as Title I funds) must prepare and disseminate annual accountability reports which in Connecticut, present the performance of students in mathematics and reading on the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT). Students can score at five levels on the tests: Advanced, Goal, Proficient, Basic, or Below Basic. The federal NCLB accountability act establishes standards based on the percentage of students scoring at the Proficient level or higher. The report also includes information about the qualifications of teachers based on the federal definition of highly qualified teachers.
Adequate Yearly Progress Status Report, 2005-2006 (click to view)
Qualifications of Teachers Teaching in the Core Academic Areas, 2006-2007
The academic subjects that have been identified as core academic areas by the federal statute are English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, world languages, civics and government, economics, the arts, history, and geography; this includes elementary and middle school teachers, special education, TESOL, early childhood, remedial reading, gifted and talented and bilingual education teachers teaching these subjects, but not physical education, health, vocational, consumer and technology education, or other subjects not explicitly listed above.
All teachers employed by the Preston Board of Education for the 2006-2007 school year meet the highly qualified designation required by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in the core areas addressed by the statute.