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JUST THE FACTS Missouri The Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. ICW promotes the rigorous educational standards and effective job training systems needed to preserve the strength of America’s greatest economic resource, its workforce. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations. The National Chamber Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is dedicated to identifying and fostering public debate on emerging critical issues. We provide business and government leaders with insight and resources to address tomorrow’s challenges. © Institute for a Competitive Workforce, Feburary 2013 “U.S. CHAMBER” and “U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE” are registered trademarks of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. © National Chamber Foundation, Feburary 2013 Missouri 1 Are ALL children receiving a high-quality education in Missouri? Not yet. Missouri is not ensuring that all of its students are graduating ready for college and the workforce—yet. If current trends continue, only 15% of current high school freshman in the state will have a college diploma when they are in their mid-twenties. This means that the vast majority of graduates from Missouri schools will not be employable in jobs that require high skills.1 Missouri has taken steps to increase expectations for students through its Top 10 by 20 Education Reform Plan. The plan sets ambitious achievement targets and strategies to ensure that by 2020 Missouri ranks in the top ten states on key indicators such as graduation rates, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and remediation rates. The state’s overall goal is to see all students proficient and ready for college and the workforce by the time they graduate. While these goals are central to the transformation of education for students in Missouri, more needs to be done. Parents need transparent information about their schools and districts and parents with children in failing schools need the capacity to choose something better for their children. In order for Missouri to achieve its goals and transform education by 2020, it must ensure that these critical issues are addressed. Missouri at a Glance2 Total enrollment 886,402 Number of schools 2,291 Number of school districts 520 Number of charter schools-Kansas City and St. Louis 58 Students who receive free or reduced lunch 50% White 74.3% Black 16.8% Hispanic 4.8% Asian 1.9% Native American/Pacific Islander 0.5% Has the state received a No Child Left Behind waiver? YES Is the state or district a Race to the Top Grant recipient? NO Missouri 2 How are Missouri schools Not enough Missouri students graduate failing the state’s business from high school prepared for college community? or the workforce. Missouri needs more educated workers • While the state has a relatively high graduation to fill high-skill jobs. rate of 86%, only 60% of students graduate in the urban Kansas City Missouri School District.7 • Sixty percent of jobs in Missouri will require a • Only 27% of the class of 2012 achieved a score career certificate or degree by 2020, but only on the ACT that indicated they were ready for 37% of adults in the state currently have these college-level courses.8 qualifications.3 • Fifty-two percent of students attending two-year • Of students who enroll in two- or four-year public colleges and 14.1% of students entering four-year colleges or universities, only 19% graduate on colleges need remediation. 9 time.4 • More than 40% of minority students require • On average, a high school graduate in Missouri remediation.10 earns $8,109 more each year than a high school • Missouri ranks 49th among states in the percent dropout. In 2011, approximately 18,000 students of high school graduates taking AP exams. Only did not graduate from high school, equaling lost 8.2% of high school graduates score a three or lifetime earnings of $2.3 billion.5 higher on a five point scale.11 • If Missouri cut the number of high school dropouts in half, the additional spending and Missouri High School Graduation Rates, investments by these new graduates would Class of 2012 be enough to support as many as 1,000 new jobs and increase the gross state product by as Four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate much as $33 million by the time they reach their career midpoints.6 100 90% 89% 90 86% 87% 79% 79% 80 73% 70 All Students Asian 60 White Native American 50 Latino Low-income 40 Black 30 20 10 0 Class of 2012 Source: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, http://dese.mo.gov/top10by20/comparison.html#graduation Missouri 3 Not enough students attend What is Missouri doing to high-quality schools and meet standards improve schools and prepare for proficiency in reading and math. students to meet college- and • As Missouri prepares to complete the career-ready standards? implementation of college- and career-ready standards and aligned assessments, the Implementing state standards and National Assessment of Educational Progress assessments aligned to college- and (NAEP) shows that most students in the state career-ready standards are not proficient in reading and math, despite comparatively high scores on the state’s test..12 Missouri adopted the Common Core State Standards • According to the Children’s Education Alliance (CCSS) in English language arts and math in June of Missouri, achievement on the Missouri 2010.15 After adopting CCSS, the Missouri Department Assessment Program (MAP) shows a lack of of Elementary and Secondary Education (MDESE) significant progress in most districts, a decline initiated a process to revise its standards in other in some of the lowest performing districts, and a subject areas to ensure that all standards are equally widening of the achievement gap.13 rigorous and reflective of college- and career-ready • Missouri faces significant socioeconomic expectations. Although historically curriculum achievement gaps on the NAEP assessment: development has been left to districts, MDESE is 80% of low-income fourth-grade students are developing model curriculum to ensure that all not proficient in reading, and 72% of low-income districts, regardless of resources, will have access eighth-grade students are not proficient in math.14 to a curriculum that will enable them to teach their students content aligned to the new standards. Missouri 2011 NAEP and MAP Scores 3 Common Core Standards in reading and Percentage of Students Who are Not Proficient math. Missouri is committed to implementing standards in reading and math aligned to the 100 CCSS no later than the 2013–14 school year. 90 3 Assessments aligned to CCSS. Missouri 80 is a governing state in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and will pilot 70 66% 68% 65% and field-test the assessment system during the 59% NAEP Reading 60 NAEP Math 2013−14 school year. 49% MAP Reading 50 47% 46% 47% MAP Math 3 Academic pathways of learning to meet 40 labor market demands. Missouri is one of six states selected for a national education initiative 30 designed to build career pathway systems for 20 high school-aged students. The Pathways to 10 Prosperity Network is a joint effort between the 0 Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Grade 4 Grade 8 Graduate School of Education and Jobs for the Future. The project is focused on increasing high school graduation rates and the attainment of postsecondary credentials with value in the labor market. Pathways to Prosperity Missouri will initially focus on the St. Louis region with the Missouri 4 longer-term goal of creating a system of career 3 High-achievement goals. Missouri has pathways that can serve students throughout the established a set of annual measurable objectives state. Initial industry areas include those with high (AMOs) for all traditional subgroups, as well as for workforce demand, including healthcare, biotech, a Student Gap Group (a group composed of black agriculture, finance, and information technology.16 students, Latino students, low-income students, students with disabilities, and English language learners). The state has set a goal of increasing What to Watch: the percent of students who are proficient by 25% by 2020 (74% proficient in Math, 69.8% for • Staying the course. Will Missouri maintain its reading). The goal for the Student Gap Group is commitment to the timeline for implementing to reduce the achievement gap by half by 2020 CCSS standards and the SBAC assessments? (67.8% proficient in math, 63.5% for reading). It • Will increased standards and assessments will reset these goals when it implements the lead to improved college and career SBAC assessment system.17 readiness? As a result of increased 3 Accountability for all students. Missouri will expectations, will more students graduate ready report student assessment results for traditional to attain postsecondary credentials and meet the subgroups and include Student Gap Group test demands of the labor market? scores in accountability determinations. 6 Consequences for low-performing schools and districts. Missouri requires interventions Holding all schools accountable for in low-performing schools, but only the lowest meeting state standards 15% of schools. In addition, MDESE is not using its MPI and AMOs to determine the lowest achieving Under its approved NCLB waiver, Missouri is using a schools. Districts are no longer required to offer modified version of its Missouri School Improvement supplemental educational services or choice to Program (MSIP 5), which has been in place since students attending these schools.