All charter schools and public schools in North Carolina must meet their Adequately Yearly Progress or AYP. According to No Child Left Behind (“NCLB”) students in grades 3-8 must not only pass their required state reading and math exams but each year they must make progress on these exams. If a school does not meet one of their targets they did not meet AYP. AYP has high stakes and is a measuring tool used by the U.S. Department of Education to determine if the use of Title I funds has been spent well.
This accountability tool for assists educators, administrators,
