Title I Part A - Sec. 1111

The first section of ESEA, Section 1111, establishes the requirements for academic assessments, all of the subgroups that must be reported on in various ways, the accountability system, report cards, and school improvement. School improvement is not addressed in this.

ACADEMIC ASSESSMENTS

Each State plan shall demonstrate that the State educational agency, in consultation with local educational agencies, has implemented a set of high-quality student academic assessments in mathematics, reading or language arts, and science. The State retains the right to implement such assessments in any other subject chosen by the State.

The assessments under subparagraph (A) shall:

• enable results to be disaggregated within each State, local educational agency, and school by
• each major racial and ethnic group
• economically disadvantaged students as compared to students who are not economically disadvantaged
• children with disabilities as compared to children without disabilities
• English proficiency status
• gender
• migrant status

STATEWIDE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM

Each State plan shall describe a statewide accountability system that complies with the requirements of this subsection and subsection (d).

In this subsection and subsection (d), the term "subgroup of students" means:

• economically disadvantaged students
• students from major racial and ethnic groups
• children with disabilities
• English learners

ANNUAL LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY REPORT CARDS

A local educational agency that receives assistance under this part shall prepare and disseminate an annual local educational agency report card that includes information on such agency as a whole and each school served by the agency.

Each local educational agency report card shall be:

• concise
• presented in an understandable and uniform format, and to the extent practicable, in a language that parents can understand
• accessible to the public, which shall include placing such report card on the website of the local educational agency

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• in the case of a local educational agency, information that shows how students served by the local educational agency achieved on the academic assessments described in subsection (b)(2) compared to students in the State as a whole
• For all students and disaggregated by each subgroup of students described in subsection (b)(2)(B)(xi), homeless status, status as a child in foster care, and status as a student with a parent who is a member of the Armed Forces (as defined in Section 101(a)(4) of title 10, United States Code) on active duty (as defined in Section 101(d)(5) of such title), information on student achievement on the academic assessments described in subsection (b)(2) at each level of achievement, as determined by the State under subsection (b)(1).
• For all students and disaggregated by each of the subgroups of students, as defined in subsection (c)(2), and for purposes of subclause (II) of this clause, homeless status and status as a child in foster care
• Information on the number and percentage of English learners achieving English language proficiency.

REVIEW EXPECTATIONS:

Reviewers will look for evidence that the Report Cards for the district and schools are on the LEAs website and are easy to locate. Districts will also be asked how they communicate this information to parents.