BROWNSVILLE
AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Established in 1967
Future Ready Index
The Future Ready PA Index will serve as Pennsylvania’s one-stop location for comprehensive information about school success, and will use a dashboard model to highlight how schools are performing and making progress on multiple indicators.
The dashboard approach to school reporting:
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Increases emphasis on student growth measures, which incentivizes a focus on all learners and is less sensitive to demographic variables.
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Measures English language acquisition among ELL students, not simply performance on a test of grade level ELA standards.
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Incentivizes career awareness instruction beginning at the elementary level.
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Addresses the issue of unequal weighting of content areas in the current SPP.
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Provides indicators of student success after graduation.
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Increases the emphasis on student access to course offerings such as AP, IB, college credit, and CTE programs of study.
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Allows LEAs to include locally-selected reading assessments (Grade 3) and math assessments (Grade 7) as additional snapshots of student progress.
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Incentivizes schools to offer career pathways that culminate with high value, industry recognized credentials.