{"id":22,"date":"2013-05-29T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2013-09-30T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:40:04","slug":"states-plans-for-phasing-out-the-aa-mas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/june-2013\/states-plans-for-phasing-out-the-aa-mas\/","title":{"rendered":"States Plans for Phasing Out the AA-MAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some states have an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS).\u00a0 The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) allows up to two percent of students to be counted as proficient with this assessment option. Students who participate in an AA-MAS must have an individualized education program (IEP) and be unlikely to achieve grade level proficiency within the year covered by the IEP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2011 the U.S. Department of Education provided the opportunity for states to request flexibility from some of the ESEA accountability requirements. To receive a flexibility waiver, states with an AA-MAS were required to include a plan to phase out the use of the AA-MAS for ESEA accountability by the 2014-15 school year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NCEO recently published a report,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cehd.umn.edu\/nceo\/OnlinePubs\/Synthesis89\/SynthesisReport89.pdf\"><b> <i>States\u2019 Flexibility Plans for Phasing Out the Alternate Assessment Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) by 2014-15<\/i><\/b><\/a>, that compiled, analyzed and summarized states\u2019 transition plans. As students who participated in the AA-MAS are transitioned to the general assessment, states have a wonderful opportunity to really think thoughtfully about how to best instruct and assess low-performing students with disabilities and other struggling learners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some states have an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS).\u00a0 The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) allows up to two percent of students to be counted as proficient with this assessment option. Students who participate in an AA-MAS must have an individualized education program (IEP) and be unlikely to achieve grade level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/211"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}