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New Prospect principal Laura Shady attributes part of rating decline to federal policy change affecting MLL counts
Summary
Laura Shady presented New Prospect’s continuous improvement plan and said school report‑card scores were reduced after a midyear federal policy change removed some monitored former MLL students from the counts; she outlined grade‑level planning changes and targeted supports.
Laura Shady, representing New Prospect, presented the school’s continuous improvement plan and a data overview to the Anderson School Board, explaining how recent state and federal reporting adjustments affected the school’s reported ratings and detailing instructional responses.
Shady said New Prospect’s academic achievement score was adjusted to 14.38 out of 40 after the state reallocated points; she reported the school’s multilingual‑learner (MLL) measure was adjusted to 5.83 out of 10 (down from an earlier 6.8) because a midyear federal policy change removed certain monitored students from the MLL count. "So we lost an entire point there," she said, characterizing the impact on the school’s overall score.
She reviewed a two‑day model for grade‑level planning built on backward design and described targeted strategies for second grade and for the school’s lowest‑performing students, including PLCs, reading interventions and after‑school work aimed at aligning instruction with new ELA standards. Shady referenced a folder titled "02/2425 implementation process" as the school’s action plan for remaining concerns.
Board members asked clarifying questions about interventionist counts and staffing; Shady said she has three interventionists in one of her files and otherwise described current staffing levels. The presentation closed with an invitation for board members to visit classrooms and review the full plan; no formal board action was taken at the meeting.
