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Show A8 Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Vernal Express Seven schools fall below U-PASS marks OFFICIAL BALLOT UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2007 Michael W.Wllkins COUNTY CLERK Express Associate Editor Seven of the 11 schools in Uintah School District fell below the requirements of the state U-PASS assessment. The test evaluates students against their last year's results and measures both progress and proficiency. U-PASS is one of several tests administered by the school district. The federal initiative, the Adequate Yearly Progress assessment, under the No Child Left Behind Act, showed similar results for most schools in the district. : AYP and U-PASS results were released by the state in September and school district officials have met with many ofits school administrators to address the ways each school will work to meet the needs of students shown in the test results. In addition ad-dition to the U-PASS and AYP results, district officials look at the Northwestern Evaluation Association test administered at the elementary level, and several other tests given throughout the year. : Uintah School District passed the two district-wide AYP evaluations, evalu-ations, but the federal reports indicate a need to address performance per-formance on mathematics and language arts amongelementary and middle school students. In particular, the report indicates a need for improvement among American Indian students and students with disabilities or who are economically disadvantaged. Economically disadvantaged is defined as those students who receive free or reduced lunch. : Not all schools in the district have AYP reports available, but with the exception of Split Mountain Youth Center, which is included under Uintah Districts' list of schools, every school in the district has current U-PASS test results available through the Utah Office of Education. : The state's U-PASS assessment assess-ment looks at the school as a whole as well as individual subgroups sub-groups based on race, economic status, disability and proficiency in English. In order to pass the assessment, a School must pass both overall as a school and within the subgroups. : In both cases, officials look at both proficiency and progress. A school may not be proficient, but will pass if enough students have shown progress over previous previ-ous assessments. The reverse is also true: a school or subgroup in a school may pass if it does not make adequate progress, but shows high proficiency. - U-PASS looks at language arts, math, science and attendance atten-dance for all students and adds graduation-based requirements at the high school level. Uintah High School did not pass U-PASS. The school was required to achieve a score of 75 percent proficiency and 185 in progress. But the 70 percent proficiency and 183 progress fell below the mark. The subgroup scores were also lower, at 61 percent proficiency and 171 in progress. The lowest scores at UHS were in math and science. Students Stu-dents with disabilities showed tew proficiency, and Caucasian students fell behind in progress. prog-ress. : At Vernal Junior High, students stu-dents did not make U-PASS, scoring 72 percent proficiency and 183 in progress against the required 80 percent proficiency and 190 in progress. : Proficiency scores were brought down by a low 60 percent per-cent in science, but students also lacked proficiency in language arts and math and showed low progress scores in math, science and attendance. : The lowest proficiency scores were among all of the significant ! Subscribe today sV V -J WW rCall 789-35? 1 subgroups and low progress was exhibited for economically disadvantages and disabled students. stu-dents. Vernal Middle School passed its U-PASS assessment. Overall the school scored 76 percent in proficiency and 196 in progress. And subgroups scores 67 percent proficiency and 182 in progress. The scores are slightly below the requisite 80 percent proficiency and 190 progress scores, but were within the confidence interval. As with all statistical reports, there is a margin of error. U-PASS considers school population and how many students took the test in determining the confidence interval. in-terval. In Vernal Middle School's case, the test results were lower than the requirements, but with the margin of error, referred to as the confidence interval. West Middle School did not meet its U-PASS assessment, scoring 45 percent proficiency and 145 in progress against the required 80 percent proficiency and 190 progress. Subgroups were also lower than required levels, scoring 42 percent proficiency profi-ciency and 141 in progress. Science was the low score at West, but language arts, math and attendance weren't much higher. And none of the subgroups sub-groups at the school made adequate ad-equate proficiency or progress. Ashley Elementary passed its U-PASS assessment with 86 percent per-cent proficiency and a progress score of 181. Subgroups were . slightly below par at 79 percent proficiency, but showed better progress with a score of 183. The standard for Ashley was 80 percent proficiency and 190 in progress. The school's scores were brought down slightly by a 72 percent proficiency score in attendance. And two of the school-wide proficiency scores were lower than expected with a zero in science and 151 in attendance. at-tendance. Davis Elementary failed to meet a goal of 80 percent proficiency pro-ficiency and a progress score of 190. Overall the school scored 69 percent in proficiency and 177 in progress. Subgroups scored lower with an average 61 percent per-cent proficiency and a progress score of 157. The school's lowest proficiency score, a 54 percent in science, was also the highest score in progress at 190. Scores also showed low proficiency among Caucasian and disabled students and low progress for students with disabilities. Discovery Elementary received re-ceived a passing grade, scoring 80 percent proficiency and 203 in progress against the requires 80 percent proficiency and 190 progress score. And the 68 percent per-cent proficiency and 186 progress scores for the school were within the confidence range for the school. Lapoint Elementary did not pass its U-PASS assessment. The school scored 64 percent proficiency and 168 in progress, well below the required 80 percent per-cent proficiency and 190 progress scores. Low scores were in math, at 58 percent and 47 percent in science. The school also showed the least progress in math over last year's testing. Scores at Lapoint show a lack of proficiency for American Indian In-dian students and those who are economically disadvantaged or disabled. The same three groups also showed the least progress. Maeser Elementary passed its U-PASS assessment. Though the 76 percent proficiency and 186 progress scores were below the required 80 percent proficiency and 190 in progress, the scores fell within the confidence interval for the school. The same is true for the 69 percent proficiency and 169 progress scores for the school. Naples Elementary did not make its U-PASS assessment. The 71 percent proficiency and 135 progress were lower than the 80 percent proficiency and 190 progress scores required. A low science score of 45 percent proficiency brought down the average, but other scores were also below the required levels. Subgroups scores were also lower at 62 percent proficiency and 108 in progress. Individual groups passed the proficiency portion of the assessment but failed to make adequate progress. Todd Elementary did not pass its U-PASS assessment, scoring 46 percent in proficiency and 102 in progress, well below the required 80 percent proficiency and 190 progress. Subgroups also fell below the standard, scoring an average of 44 in proficiency and 98 in progress. Scores indicate Caucasian students stu-dents with adequate proficiency and competency levels, but all other sub groups, including American Indian, economically disadvantaged and students with disabilities did not. xsC.tz rcr. Tj .r.rc; ink (net rci). CI: :. . this tcT.ot, cor3 1.3 Ccr.v; C:.J CITIZENS' STATE REFERENDUM NUMBER 1 BALLOT TITLE In February 2007, the Utah Legislature passed H.B. 148, Education Vouchers. This bill will take effect only if approved by voters. The bill: establishes a scholarship program for: o qualifying school-age children who newly enroll in eligible private schools; and o lower income school-age children who continue their enrollment in eligible private schools; provides for scholarships within that program of $500 to $3,000, depending on family size and income, increasing those scholarship amounts in future years; and allows school districts to retain some per-student funding for scholarship students who transfer to private schools. Are you for or against H.B. 1 48 taking effect? OFOR O AGAINST, Official Ballot for Ballard Water Improvement District November 6, 2007 Clerk TRUSTEE For four year term (Vote for 3) O ROBERT L ABERCROMBIE O EARL L. MURPHY f) Write-in f) Write-in C) Write-in Official Ballot for Maeser Water Improvement District November 6, 2007 Clerk" TRUSTEE For four year term (Vote for 3) O RICHARD KJOLLEY O WAN A. HALL O MAX A. MCLEAN C) Write-in ( ) Write-in O Write-in Official Ballot for Ballard City November 6, 2007 Clerk COUNCIL MEMBER For four year term (Vote for 2) O ACE G. DAVIS O MARK W. REIDHEAD f Write-in O Write-in Official Ballot for Naples City November 6, 2007 Recorder COUNCIL MEMBER For four year term (Vote for 3) C.DALED.BOWDEK ODANOLSEN O KENNETH REYNOLDS O Write-in O Write-in O Write-in PROPOSITION A Shall the City of Naples, Utah be authorized to levy a sales and use tax of .25 as provided by statute for the purpose of financing the construction and maintenance of city roads? OFOR O AGAINST v v - r . ... V ,. ',. - - - , , Official Ballot for Jensen Water Improvement District November 6, 2007 Clerk TRUSTEE ' For four year term (Vote for 3) O BOYD R. SNOW O HARLAN "SCOOT" WILKINS O RUELD.CROWTON OT0DDR.WALUS O CLEVELAND KARREN O RANDAN J. 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