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SVES meets PSS Child Care goal
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Posted on Mar 13 2006
San Vicente Elementary School has met the Public School System’s goals for 2008, with 62 percent of the school’s 856 students reading at or above grade level, according to PSS Federal Programs advisor Tim Thornburgh.
During a presentation yesterday at the PSS Child Care Program conference at the Aqua Resort Club, Thornburgh reiterated the three learning goals that all schools and all programs are working together to meet: For students to score at the national goal of 50th percentile or higher on the Stanford Achievement Test 10th edition by 2008; that 80 percent of local students are reading on or above grade level by 2010; and that CNMI students are proficient on its standard-based tests by 2014.
Thornburgh said five other elementary schools and the Tinian Junior and Senior High School have had one or more grades that tested at or above the 50th percentile on the SAT10 and are just a year or so away from meeting the 2008 goal.
“The PSS is confident in the ability of our elementary and secondary school students to meet or exceed these performance-based student learning goals,” said Thornburgh.
He added that the education component of the child care program, the Early Learning Guidelines, and the education component of Head Start are critical to ensuring that local children, especially those from low-income families, enter the CNMI public schools ready and eager to learn.
The PSS Child Care Program is a 100-percent federally funded program through the Child Care Development Fund that started in 1992 as an economic mainstreaming program. “The program was designed to provide subsidized child care services so that the parent or parents could either work full time, attend school full time or attend job training full time,” said the presentation.
Thornburgh said that “streams of funds” were also provided for school-age after-school programs, quality activities, development of Good Start/Grow Smart and the Early Learning Guidelines.
