The PSAA Subcommittee for the Alternative Accountability System has forwarded their recommendations of indicators to the State Board of Education for approval. The Alternative Accountability Model will include indicators that fall into two distinct categories: Group I - Readiness Indicators and Group II - Achievement/Completion Indicators. (If you access our website at www.cceanet.org you can view the Achievement Measures and Indicators for the Five Stages of Development for students. Group I includes Stages I and II. Group II includes the remaining three stages.) As adopted at the most recent PSAA Subcommittee meeting, there will be 16 different indicators available from which schools can choose the measures upon which they wish to show school/student growth, in addition to their STAR results. These include such things as reduced incidences of inappropriate behavior (suspension and expulsion); attendance, school persistence and tardiness; academic improvement; course completion, graduation rate, promotion/failure rate, credits earned, GED/CHSPE completion rate and educational transition. There will be more information on how this will work in our next newsletter. Also, if you are planning to attend the State Conference, Sue Bennett from the Department of Education will be making a presentation on this subject. You won’t want to miss the opportunity to have your questions answered at this time.