Adequate Yearly Progress Participation Rate Calculation for 2006

The report cites a federal regulation that states that a school or district makes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) if it has met the 95% participation rate requirement separately in reading and mathematics.

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

TATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

F. PHILIP HANDY,

T. WILLARD FAIR,

Vice Chairman

DONNA G. CALLAWAY

JULIA L. JOHNSON

ROBERTO MARTÍNEZ

PHOEBE RAULERSON

LINDA K. TAYLOR

John L. Winn

Commissioner of Education

October 27, 2005

TO: District Superintendents

FROM: John L. Winn

Adequate Yearly Progress Participation Rate Calculation for 2006

The Florida Department of Education received the report findings from the United States

Department of Education’s monitoring visit of Title I in Florida. The report stated that Florida is

not calculating separate participation rates for the mathematics and reading assessments. Florida

currently counts students as participating if they take either the mathematics or reading

assessment and reports the same participation rate for both subject areas.

The report cites a federal regulation that states that a school or district makes Adequate Yearly

Progress (AYP) if it has met the 95% participation rate requirement separately in reading and

In response, beginning in the 2005-06 school year, Florida will change the participation rate

calculation for AYP by calculating reading and mathematics subject area participation rates

separately. This new participation rate calculation will result in nine additional criteria, for a

total of 18 participation criteria, that a school and district must meet to make AYP.

If you have any questions regarding the new participation calculation for AYP, please contact the

Director of Evaluation and Reporting, Christy Hovanetz Lassila, at Christy.hovanetz@fldoe.org

or 850-245-0411.

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