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Clairton City School District, Pennsylvania
In
1998-1999 the total enrollment in the Clairton City School District
was 1,043. Sixty-five percent of the district population was low
income. Twenty-six percent of the student population received special
education services. The targeted area of need, which was identified
prior to EMSTAC involvement, is reading improvement at the elementary
school level.
The district began this intervention prior to working with Emstac
due largely to a state mandate associated with the state of Pennsylvania's
"Education Empowerment Act." Under this initiative, the
state identified a group of 12 districts judged to be low-performing
(based largely upon test scores), and gave them a mandate to improve
within three years or face a possible takeover by the state. Districts
such as Clairton, which are under Empowerment status, must develop
a plan for improvement and then identify and select programs (which
are funded in part by $500,000 from the state) to begin implementing
in classrooms. Reading was identified as a potential intervention
in Clairton due to the district's low scores on the Pennsylvania
System of School Assessment (PSSA); test scores were comparatively
lower in reading than in math. The district initially considered
using the Waterford Reading program, but has since selected two
other reading initiatives to use: Direct Instruction, which will
be used in grades K-6, and Corrective Reading, which will be used
in grades 7-12.
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