Champaign-Urbana schools see mixed results on state tests
By Amy F. ReiterJodi Heckel
Tuesday September 9, 2008
John Dixon
Adam Hill, left, works with classmates last week in Phyllis Peete's fifth-grade class at Thomas Paine Elementary School in Urbana. The school achieved Adequate Yearly Progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act last year.
Another year of state testing, another year of hits and misses in Champaign-Urbana public schools.
Both districts released state test scores, and results of the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests – or ISAT – show most elementary schools making testing benchmarks defined by the state, and most middle and high schools failing to make the grade.
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