Auburn School District No. 408
915 4th Street Northeast, Auburn, WA  98002

 11/04/02

NEWS RELEASE
New Online School Report Cards

Parents and community members looking for information about the performance of their schools and school districts now have access to it online.  The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is now providing this school report card data at http://www.k12.wa.us/ESEA/default.asp.  This report card data is a requirement of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) signed into law last January by President Bush.  This new education law, also known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, requires states and school districts to provide detailed data on several indicators:

• Student performance on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) in reading and mathematics by performance level;

• Student performance on the WASL broken down by:

  • the five major ethnic/racial groups

  • gender

  • disability status

  • English proficiency

  • migrant/bilingual status

• Percentage of students not tested;

• Number of schools and districts in federal improvement status, and

• Professional qualifications of teachers in the state.