Tata: Wake schools should target use of federal funds
Wake schools superintendent Tony Tata said today that the system should make better use of about $33.5 million it receives from the federal government to boost achievement among low-income students and those for whom English is a second language.
Tata was addressing yesterday’s release of No Child Left Behind testing, which showed that only 13.5 percent of Wake’s 163 schools were making “adequate yearly progress,” or AYP, a measure of student achievement which periodically gets tougher.
Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, students are divided into subgroups. Some schools receive Title I funding based on its number of low-income students and ESL funding based on the number of students for whom English is a second language. Every subgroup must meet the standards or the entire school fails.
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