Sara Butterworth's List: Data Based Decision Making

• It also provides a significant increase in resources to assist States in meeting these new expectations.
• The statute gives States and local educational agencies significant flexibility in how they direct resources and tailor interventions to the needs of individual schools identified for improvement.
• It also provides a list of consequences under "school improvement," "corrective action" and "restructuring" that allow States to take a range of actions. For example, under "corrective action" the options range from more limited consequences such as hiring an outside expert to advise a school on how to make adequate yearly progress, to more significant measures such as replacing school staff or restructuring the internal organization of a school (see attached chart).
• A single statewide accountability system applied to all public schools
• all students are proficient in reading and math no later than 2013-2014. ⁵
• These goals must increase at steady and consistent increments during the 12-year timeline, although not necessarily annually throughout the 12 years

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