Six Wicomico Schools Honored with 2008 Maryland School Performance Recognition Awards
The Maryland State Department of Education has recognized four Wicomico County elementary schools and two high schools that have earned 2008 Maryland School Performance Recognition Awards based on improvement from 2007 to 2008 on Maryland’s assessments. Westside Primary School in Quantico was recognized for overall improvement in Maryland School Assessment scores by its former students from 2007 to 2008.
Three Title I schools were recognized for subgroup improvement. These schools were Charles H. Chipman Elementary and Pinehurst Elementary in Salisbury, and Northwestern Elementary in Mardela Springs. Each Title I school will receive a $5,533.93 award for the school to use to continue improving.
At the high school level, schools are recognized when their students have made improvements among subgroups on the High School Assessments (HSAs) from 2007 to 2008. Parkside High School and James M. Bennett High School have received state recognition for subgroup improvements. MSDE is recognizing 463 elementary and middle schools and 73 high schools across the State for the academic performance of their students. The recognition program honors schools for their performance on the 2008 Maryland School Assessment (MSA) or the High School Assessment (HSA), and for improving the performance of special populations of students for two years. Only schools that made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for 2007-2008 were eligible for the awards. Special populations include race/ethnicity, special education, limited English proficiency, and students who are receiving free or reduced price meals.
The program, established by the Maryland General Assembly in 1996, is now required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). “Each year the School Recognition Program allows us to acknowledge the success of staff and students in raising the performance levels of all public school students,” said State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S. Grasmick. “This year, we share our pride in 536 elementary, middle, and high schools for their overall achievement or for improving the performance of their special populations or both.”
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SUBGROUP IMPROVEMENT AT JMB?
ReplyDeleteWhat subgroup is that , GANGS!
JMB is out of control blacks are beating white kids up for fun and teachers are dressing in BLACK to show dissatisfaction with the current administration!
Teachers are now refusing to teach and are just assigning work out of books and worksheets. The school needs the STATE to step in and help!
This is what happens when thugs run the school. Once kids know you have no intention of making them follow the rules and you really don't want to punish them for their offenses, it's over.
ReplyDeletewell congrats on all schools. Although I dont see how Bennett was one of them. That School is like a downtown Baltimore school. It is trashy and they are unruley there. So that had to be fixed. I think what has happend is where they are building the new one and the county has no money left or very little so the pulled scores out of their donkeys... So ? is do we beleive this??? NOPE!!! They can't even keep half the kids in the school. there are gangs in there and they watch the kids walk right off the property. the outside is full of trash all the time as well as inside. So again I ask do we beleive this..NOPE... Think about people
ReplyDeleteJMB needs an effective administration that is respected by the student body. A principal who hugs and coos at kids while they are being referred by teachers for foul language, fighting, classroom disruption, assault, theft, etc., is a joke. If she ever gets firm with the kids she knows they'll ignore her so her style is to act like the kids aren't doing anything wrong. Where are the middle and high school administrators who know how to control and lead a school?
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