Not Making AYP

Baseball Diamond 25%

Rating of 5 out of 6

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Oct 4, 12:00 AM

Teachers in the state's public schools have higher targets to meet and less money to do it

The release of the 2012 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment scores last week provided some shocking results: The number of districts making adequate yearly progress, known as AYP, statewide fell from 94 to 60.9 percent and the number of districts in Allegheny County that failed to make the mark increased from four in 2011 to 17 in 2012.

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