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Published November 10, 2007 06:11 pm - Members of the Joplin R-8 Board of Education will hear some good news from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education during its upcoming meeting on Tuesday night. Data cleanup improves district’s standing By Joe Hadsall
jhadsall@joplinglobe.com Members of the Joplin R-8 Board of Education will hear some good news from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education during its upcoming meeting on Tuesday night. According to DESE, the district has met standards to achieve adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the past two years, according to the No Child Left Behind Act. This means the district has been removed from a list of schools in a “needs improvement” designation. Preliminary numbers released in August indicated the district’s graduation rate would not be good enough to meet AYP. But Assistant Superintendent Angela Besendorfer said the district’s rate improved to 74.5 percent during a data-cleanup phase. “Part of that cleanup is to correct numbers that were mistaken,” Besendorfer said. “That’s how our graduation rate improved to where we were no longer on the ‘needs-improvement’ list.” Besendorfer said the correction is not big enough to eliminate a concern with the district’s graduation rate. In 2006, the state’s average graduation rate was 84.1 percent. But the corrections and a strong performance by Joplin students make conditions favorable for Joplin to win “Distinction in Performance” for a fourth year in a row, she said. “A big part of that is about student performance,” Besendorfer said. “The really great performance of our students is a good indicator that we may likely win that.” DESE is expected to release a list of top-performing districts in December. Board members will also consider the expenditure of $149,465 to equip 12 new computer classrooms around the district. The classrooms will be part of the eMINTS program and Joplin’s iTEK technology plan. The funding will pay for Apple computers, networking equipment and classroom furniture. About $76,800 of the purchase will be paid with state and federal grants. In other meeting business, the board will: n Review the findings of an internal audit performed by Davis, Lynn and Moots, an accounting firm based in Springfield. 
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