REPORTING

Selected SFSF Assurance Indicators

(a)(2) Utah Plan to Ensure High Quality Teachers for All Students (revised 2006).
ed.gov/programs/teacherqual/hqtplans/ut.pdf

(c)(1) and (c)(2) USED Letter approving Utah's Assessment System, including the Utah Alternate Assessment.
ed.gov/admins/lead/account/nclbfinalassess/ut.html

"I have concluded that the evidence demonstrates that Utah's standards and assessment system satisfies the NCLB requirements. Specifically, Utah's system includes academic content and student achievement standards in reading/language arts, mathematics, and science; alternate achievement standards for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities in those subjects; assessments in each of grades 3 through 10 in reading/language arts and mathematics; assessments in science in three grade spans; and alternate assessments for each subject."

(Henry Johnson, May 8, 2006)

(c)(3) The Utah Alternate Assessment (UAA) is based on grade level standards.
[Source: WestEd, "Utah Alignment and Linkage Analyses of State Assessments and Standards" (February 20, 2006, p. iii-iv)]

(c)(7) Utah does not currently provide native language versions of state assessments for limited English proficient students.

(d)(1)-(d)(6), (d)(9) and (d)(10) Supporting Struggling Schools (December 2009)

(d)(11) and (d)(12) Charter schools that have closed within the last five years (since 2004-2005):
Four Utah charter schools have closed in the last five years - CBA Center, Dream, Emerson Alcott, and Jean Massieu. CBA Center was an alternative school chartered by the Millard School District; it was closed after 2008-2009 in conjunction with a reorganization of schools in the district due to budget reductions. Dream was an alternative school chartered by the Granite School District; it was closed during 2004-05 by its operators while they were under scrutiny by the district for alleged mismanagement. Emerson Alcott failed to make the required progress toward opening in 2008-09, so its charter was revoked by the State Charter School Board before it opened. In 2005-06, Jean Massieu merged with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and continues to operate as a state sponsored school.