Office of Planning and Service Coordination
Evaluating Supplemental Educational Service Providers: Issues and Challenges
Under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, schools or local education agencies that haven't made adequate yearly progress (AYP) for three or more consecutive years must provide supplemental educational services to eligible students. In the Northwest region, each state has successfully complied with this requirement. However, the states now face the challenge of monitoring and evaluating their supplemental service providers.
The law allows flexibility in designing and implementing this process, but developing a set of successful practices is just the beginning. Ensuring that eligible students measurably benefit from supplemental educational services will require states to be innovative in fulfilling their responsibility.
This Topical Summary focuses on evaluating supplemental service providers, but some general information about the requirements is needed to provide context. The following information is summarized from NCLB—available at www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml— and the U.S. Department of Education’s Supplemental Educational Services Non-regulatory Guidance, www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/suppsvcsguid.doc.
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