Download or read book A Brief Look at written by Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), Evaluation and Research Department and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 4th, 2010, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released its annual statewide Dropout Report covering the 2008-09 school year. The charts in this report show the dropout rate for Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) compared to the state as a whole, to other large school districts in North Carolina, and by federal No Child Left Behind subgroups. Note that rates are rounded to one decimal place in the charts with normal rounding rules applied, but in the text, two decimal places are used. These analyses reveal the following: (1) Posting the lowest dropout rate since 2003-04, the WCPSS dropout rate in 2008-09 for grades 9-12 was 3.47%; (2) Other large school districts in North Carolina, including Durham (4.26), Forsyth (4.76), and Mecklenburg (4.99), had higher dropout rates in 2008-09 than did WCPSS, while Guilford (3.13) remained lower. Of those districts, only WCPSS and Guilford have had a rate below the state average in each of the past eleven years; (3) For the first time since 2000-01, the dropout rates for each race/ethnic group declined as compared to the previous year. The largest percentage point declines were for Hispanic/Latino students (1.4 points), Black students (1.1), and Multi-racial students (1.0). No data are reported for Native American students due to very low numbers in that group; and (4) WCPSS dropout rates also declined in 2008-09 among limited English proficient students (0.8 percentage points), students with disabilities (1.2), and students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (1.4). This represented the second consecutive year of declining rates for limited English proficient students and students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.

Download or read book A Brief Look at written by Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), Evaluation and Research Department and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WCPSS dropout rate in 2009-10 for grades 9-12 was 3.53%, compared to 3.47% in 2008-09. The state's rate showed a decrease in 2009-10--from 4.27% to 3.75%. Other large school districts in North Carolina, including Durham (4.32%), Forsyth (4.07%), and Mecklenburg (4.15%), had higher dropout rates in 2009-10 than did WCPSS, while Guilford (2.81%) remained lower. Of those districts, only WCPSS and Guilford have had a rate below the state average in each of the past twelve years.

Download or read book Dropout Rate for WCPSS written by Brad McMillen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2014 the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) released its annual statewide Dropout Report covering the 2012-13 school year. This district report contains the dropout rate for WCPSS high school students and also depicts rates for other large school districts in North Carolina (NC) in addition to selected WCPSS student subgroups. Despite increases in student membership each year, WCPSS continues to maintain a steady decline in dropout counts. In 2012-13, the WCPSS high school dropout rate fell to 1.95%, its lowest rate ever. The WCPSS rate is lower than the state's rate, and also the lowest of the other four large school districts in North Carolina (Guilford 2.07%, Forsyth 2.72%, Mecklenburg 3.02%, and Durham 3.21%). WCPSS dropout rates by ethnicity in 2012-13 also fell for all subgroups, with Black/African-American students experiencing the largest drop of 1.8 percentage points, from 4.6% in 2011- 12 to 2.8% in 2012-13.

Download or read book High School Four Year Graduation Rates Wake County Public School System WCPSS written by Glenda Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-year cohort graduation rate for WCPSS [Wake County Public School System] in 2009-10 was 78.2%, down slightly from 2008-09, when 78.4% of that year's cohort graduated within four years. Female students in WCPSS had a much higher graduation rate than male students (82.9% vs. 73.6%). Graduation rates for the Asian (91.3%), Hispanic/Latino (54.2%), Black/African American (63.9%) subgroups increased, but the White (89.3%) and Multiracial (75.7%) rates decreased. Students with disabilities (57.0%), students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (59.2%), and students with limited English proficiency (36.7%) all had graduation rates that were substantially below the system-wide average. WCPSS overall rates compare favorably to other North Carolina school districts, the state, and the nation. WCPSS had rates above the state rates and also above most of the comparison districts for male, female, Asian, Multiracial, and White students; however, graduation rates for Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, FRL [free or reduced-price lunch], and LEP [limited English proficiency] subgroups were below the state rate. In WCPSS, individual high school rates in 2009-10 varied from 72.6% to 92.8%. Fifteen of twenty-five (60%) schools had graduation rates above 80%.

Download or read book WCPSS High School Graduation Rates written by Roger Regan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) four-year cohort graduation rate declined slightly to 80.6% in 2011-12 from 80.9% in the previous year. Disaggregated graduation rates for most racial and ethnic groups stayed nearly the same or declined slightly in 2011-12, but the rate for African-American students rose from 67.9% to 69.6%. The other bright spot was the continued rise in the rate for economically disadvantaged students (ED), which increased from 63.0% to 65.1%. Four-year cohort graduation rates at the 24 WCPSS high schools ranged from 66.4% to 94.7% in 2011-12. Rates increased at almost half the schools and declined at the others. Seventeen high schools, or 71%, had rates over 80%. In contrast to WCPSS, the four-year graduation rate for the state of North Carolina and six comparison North Carolina public school districts increased in 2011-12. WCPSS's graduation rates for the subgroups of Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, ED, and students with limited English proficiency (LEP) continue to trail the rates at the state level and other large NC districts.

Download or read book WCPSS Dropout Rate written by Kevin Gilleland and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WCPSS dropout rate for grades 9-12 fell to 2.83 % in 2011-12, down from 3.2% in the previous year. The NC overall rate decreased in 2011-12 to 3.01% from 3.43% in 2010-11. Other large school districts in North Carolina, including Durham (3.55%), Forsyth (3.38%), and Mecklenburg (3.20%), had higher dropout rates in 2011-12 than did WCPSS, while Guilford (2.15%) remained lower. The WCPSS dropout rate for Hispanic/Latino students (4.95%) fell for the fifth consecutive year, while the dropout rate for Black/African-American students (4.58%) declined for the fourth straight year.

Download or read book High School Five Year Graduation Rates Wake County Public School System WCPSS written by Glenda Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009-10, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction was approved to include a five-year graduation rate as well as a four-year rate in determining if schools, districts, and the state made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the NCLB Act. This rate was based on the incoming 9th grade students of 2005-06. The denominator of the cohort remained the same for both the 2008-09 four-year and the 2009-10 five-year rate with an additional 296 graduates added to the numerator in the fifth year. The 2009-10 five-year district rate rose to 81.5% from a 2008-09 four-year rate of 78.4%. The subgroups with the largest increases were limited English proficient (9.8 percentage points), economically disadvantaged (7.8 percentage points), and students with disabilities subgroups (7.4 percentage points). Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American students had the largest rate increases among ethnic subgroups (6.6 and 5.5 percentage points, respectively).

Download or read book WCPSS High School Graduation Rates 2012 13 Measuring Up D A Report No 14 03 written by Roger Regan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's economy, graduating from high school is more important than ever. The economic consequences of dropping out of high school are more severe than in the past, with diminished job prospects and life-time earnings (Rouse, 2007). There are also substantial social costs associated with high school dropouts such as lower productivity and tax revenues. At the same time, the path to on-time graduation has arguably become more difficult, with higher academic expectations and stricter requirements. While the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has been fairly successful compared to other large school districts in graduating four-fifths of its high school students, there is still a lot of room for improvement, particularly for its more vulnerable students. In addition to presenting detailed statistics on high school graduation rates in 2012-13, this report also seeks to highlight the demographic and academic characteristics of students who did not graduate. Suggestions for improving high school graduation rates are also discussed.

Download or read book Promotion Retention Rates 2011 12 Data Trends D A Report No 12 16 written by Colleen Paeplow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wake County Public School System's (WCPSS) retention rate has declined for the fifth year in a row. The vast majority of WCPSS' students are promoted to the next grade level at the end of each school year. In 2011-12, only 3.4% of WCPSS students were retained in grade. While only a small percentage of students are retained each year, this represented nearly 5,000 WCPSS students in 2011-12. High school students represent over three fourths of retained students with the highest retention at grades 9 and 10. For a high school student, retention may mean repeating as few as one course (rather than a full grade). Limited English proficient (LEP) students were three to four times as likely to be retained as non-LEP students in elementary, middle, and high school. This tripling of retention was most notable at the high school level, where nearly a third of LEP high school students were retained overall, including nearly 40% of LEP students in grade 9. Furthermore, approximately 20% of economically disadvantaged (ED) students and students with disabilities (SWD) were retained in high school. Given the elevated retention rates within some grades and student subgroups, further investigation into retention is merited and planned.

Download or read book Wake County s Big Secret written by Deena Y. Trebil and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to live in North Carolina to consider reading this book. This is a true story of a community pulled apart by a local government and its control of their civic liberties. The cover reveals the immensity of the problem in Wake County, currently the nation's fourth largest school system. This collection of communities is divided into 700 Orwellian nodes to be mixed, matched and reassigned across 400 square miles. The book details what that means in human terms; families and neighbors who awake one morning to find the government sitting in the living room. This book is especially recommended for those considering relocation to Wake County, home of Cary,'Best City in America 2007'. You should know Wake County's big secret before you move here. Anyone interested in the cause and effect of inefficiencies on escalating property taxes will also find this book enormously informative.

Download or read book WCPSS High School Retention 2011 12 Research Watch D A Report No 13 15 written by Colleen Paeplow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retention means repeating one or more courses in high school, rather than a full grade. Over 3,500 high school students were retained in 2011-12 in Wake County Public School (WCPSS), with the largest numbers in grades 9 and 10. Some students enter high school below grade level. In 2011-12, half the WCPSS high schools had greater than 30% of students entering 9th grade below grade level in reading and greater than 20% below grade level in mathematics based on end-of-grade (EOG) scores from grade 8. Of retained students in grade 9: nearly two-thirds failed English I; more than half failed science and social studies; and nearly half failed mathematics. In addition, 1 in 5 retained students in grade 9 passed English I, but were missing credit in another course subject. While high schools have resources for students performing below grade level (e.g.,"bridging" courses and general supports) the supports examined were limited and/or underutilized, with the exception of mathematics support courses. Fewer than 15% of students who entered high school below grade level were enrolled in a reading support course. Based on the study's findings, it is recommended that staff: identify and utilize early indicators to determine students in need of extra support; find ways to increase the availability and usage of middle and high school supports for struggling students and monitor their success; and examine practices that may help lower retention rates. The following are appended: (1) Percentage of Retained High School Students in 2011-12 by Percentage of Students Entering High School Below Grade Level in Reading; (2) Summary of Logistic Regression Analysis for Variables Predicting In-Grade Retention in 2011-12; and (3) School-Based Programs Targeting High School Students with Weak Academic Performance.

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Download or read book The Resegregation of Schools written by Jamel K. Donnor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial” epoch, opportunities to access quality learning environments and human development resources remain determined according to race, class, gender, and ability. Taking a more nuanced approach to race and the resegregation of the American school system, this volume examines how and why the education quality for the majority of students of color in America remains fundamentally unequal.

Download or read book Best Practices to Promote High School Graduation Research Watch E R Report No 08 15 written by Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), Evaluation and Research Department and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant attention and resources have been focused on reforming high schools to enhance graduation rates. The research literature supports the following practices: (1) For struggling students, accurate identification and intensive instructional, monitoring, and counseling support; (2) For 9th graders, transition activities, personalization, and academic support strategies; and (3) For teachers, intensive training to help them provide effective instruction and support, particularly for students showing signs of risk. Contains a bibliography. [This summary highlights key findings from a more extensive literature review prepared under contract to the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Evaluation & Research Dept. (Donley, 2008).].

Download or read book The Age of Austerity written by Thomas Byrne Edsall and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation—and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers—have dominated the debate. Elected officials are being forced to make zero-sum choices—or worse, choices with no winners. Resource competition between Democrats and Republicans has left each side determined to protect what it has at the expense of the other. The major issues of the next few years—long-term deficit reduction; entitlement reform, notably of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; major cuts in defense spending; and difficulty in financing a continuation of American international involvement—suggest that your-gain-is-my-loss politics will inevitably intensify.

Download or read book Teacher Satisfaction and Turnover in WCPSS Data Trends D A Report No 13 11 written by Elizabeth O. Halstead and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the spring of 2010, over 9,000 educators across Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) took the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions (TWC) survey. Survey responses were then compared to turnover data to see if there is any relationship between the two. Results indicated that teachers' satisfaction with their working conditions were positively associated with the percentage of teachers who stayed at their school the following year. These findings are discussed in terms of implications for improving staff retention rates at schools.

Download or read book Small Gritty and Green written by Catherine Tumber and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future. America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities—Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others—increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be part of America's past, not its future. And yet, Catherine Tumber argues in this provocative book, America's gritty Rust Belt cities could play a central role in a greener, low-carbon, relocalized future. As we wean ourselves from fossil fuels and realize the environmental costs of suburban sprawl, we will see that small cities offer many assets for sustainable living not shared by their big city or small town counterparts, including population density and nearby, fertile farmland available for new environmentally friendly uses. Tumber traveled to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Midwest—from Buffalo to Peoria to Detroit to Rochester—interviewing planners, city officials, and activists, and weaving their stories into this exploration of small-scale urbanism. Smaller cities can be a critical part of a sustainable future and a productive green economy. Small, Gritty, and Green will help us develop the moral and political imagination we need to realize this.