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NCLB Reportcard Explained

NCLB Reportcard​

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires each state to use a unified accountability model. School, district, and state report cards that contain the following accountability information must be produced and made available publicly.

Mississippi's unified accountability model has both a state and federal component. The state component is not regulated by the requirements of NCLB resulting in some indicators of success in the state component differing from those in the federal, or NCLB, component. Additionally, in some instances the state and federal model use different measures of the same indicators. For example, NCLB requires the use of a 4‐ year graduation rate, whereas the state component uses a 5‐year graduation rate.