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Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States
Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee
 is one of many states that have received approval from the U.S. Department of Education on a number of policies. The state has gotten the go-ahead to:

* Measure only subgroups of 40 or more students for AYP AYP Adequate Yearly Progress (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
AYP Anarchist Yellow Pages
AYP American Youth Philharmonic
;

* Allow a wider-than-usual range for statistical error on test scores as well as the total percentage of proficient pro·fi·cient  
adj.
Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning.

n.
An expert; an adept.
 students (meaning many scores are not counted);

* Break district scores into elementary elementary /el·e·men·ta·ry/ (el?e-men´tah-re) not resolvable or divisible into simpler parts or components.

elementary

not resolvable into simpler parts.


elementary body
1.
, middle and high school so for a district to miss AYP it must fall short at all three levels.
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Title Annotation:Department of Education
Author:Fliegler, Caryn Meyers
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2006
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