Nearly 48 percent of DCPS students are proficient in reading, while 51.1 percent are proficient in math.

The Office of the State Superintendent of Education has made the District’s 2010 DC-CAS individual school scores available online, through a searchable database. Check it out to see how your neighborhood’s public and public charter schools fared in math, reading, and science this year. The DC-CAS is the test that measures whether D.C. schools are making “Adequate Yearly Progress” under the No Child Left Behind law, and is taken by students in grades 3-8 and…

Remember the early allegations of cheating on the DC-CAS (the standardized test that determines school progress under NCLB)? Bill Turque has done some digging, and reports in the Post that two teachers and one administrator at Howard Road Academy Public Charter School in Southeast have been fired after realizations that the two teachers were given advance copies of the exam so students could have “extra practice.” The scores of 27 4th and 6th grade students…

The first results from the District Of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System (DC-CAS) tests are out, and the results are encouraging. Bill Turque summarizes the gains in the Post:Nearly half the District’s public elementary students (49 percent) scored at proficiency levels in reading and math. Reading scores last year were 46 percent; math scores rose from 40 percent proficiency. In 2007, fewer than a third of elementary students were proficient in either category. Gains at…