Palm Lake Named Top Performing School!
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Palm Lake's site is a Web Award Winner!
Palm Lake was a 2005 OCCPTA Multi-Award Winner!
PALM LAKE HAS WON THE NCLB
BLUE RIBBON AWARD!
Two hundred and ninety-five schools in the nation have been named No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools for 2005, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced today. In recognition of the progress these schools have made under No Child Left Behind, each school will receive an award certificate as part of the Blue Ribbon Schools program.
The achievement gap is closing and that is great news for every student. Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve. For the first time, the Department of education is insisting on results and accountability in return for federal investment in education. In the three-plus years since No Child Left Behind was signed into law, we've learned a new equation: 'Accountability plus high expectations plus resources equals results.'"
The No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools program recognizes schools that make significant progress in closing the achievement gap or whose students achieve at very high levels. The schools are selected based on one of three criteria:
- Schools
with at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds
that dramatically improve student performance on state tests.
- Schools whose students, regardless
of background, achieve in the top 10 percent of their state on state
tests.
- Private schools that achieve in the top 10 percent in the nation.
Under No Child Left Behind, schools must make Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, in reading and language arts and mathematics. Each state—not the federal government—sets its own academic standards and benchmark goals, because each state knows best what goals and criteria are most appropriate for its school districts.
The No Child Left Behind Act is the bipartisan landmark education reform law designed to change the culture of America's schools by closing the achievement gap, offering more flexibility to states, giving parents more information and options and teaching students based on what works. Under the law's strong accountability provisions, states must describe how they will close the achievement gap and make sure all students, including those with disabilities, achieve academically.
Click here for a list of all 295 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools for 2005