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Lincoln Public Schools presents academic measures beyond the state Aquest score
Summary
District staff told the board that a single Aquest rating does not capture school-level progress and presented multiple metrics — early literacy gains, national MAP comparisons, ACT and AP results, and programs such as AVID and Career Academy — as evidence of student growth.
The presenter for Lincoln Public Schools told the Board of Education that "every chart, every piece of data is a student. There's a teacher behind it," framing a district briefing that emphasized multiple measures of school performance beyond Nebraska's Aquest accountability rating. The presentation was the first in a series the board requested to align superintendent priorities with measurable outcomes.
The district highlighted McPhee Elementary's move from a '2 good' to a '3 great' Aquest rating, and said that underlying indicators explain the change: a 10-point jump in science proficiency, 77% of students showing growth on the state…
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