Posted by: Jim W
on Aug 03, 2010
It's getting to be that time again... The kids will be starting their Junior year in just a few weeks, so it's also that time to make sure they are ready, at least from a registration standpoint. So, as I reviewed the high school website today, I stumbled upon the registration information and found a neat little gem tucked conveniently between the "class fee form" (it costs $7.00 to be a Junior this year) and the "health" and "Locker" forms.
Ethnicity Verification form
Every school district is now required to report to the department of education each year all student data by race and ethnicity categories that are set by the federal government. While the DoE does not report individual student data to the fed, they do report the total number of students in various categories in each school...apparently these are meant to help track changes in student enrollements, but also to ensure the students receive the education programs and services to which they are entitled.
The reporting categories have recently changed, hence the new forms. There are two questions on each form.
Posted by:
on May 29, 2009
An 11th-grade state test -- many educators think it's too difficult -- has been shelved as a graduation requirement in Minnesota.
Here we go again, folks. Because scores are too low, they are no longer going to require juniors in high school to pass a math test that 8th graders could have less than 30 years ago.
"They had to do something," said Don Pascoe, director of research, assessment and accountability for the Osseo schools. "They [had] set an extraordinarily challenging target for individuals to meet in order to graduate."
