IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION commending the Lee's Summit R-7 School District on the recognition of seven of its schools on the 2003 Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's annual "Top 10" list of schools with students consistently achieving high scores in one or more areas of the Missouri Assessment Program exams.
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RESOLUTION # 14550, April 7, 2003
INTRODUCED BY Bob Spence, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, Cedar Creek Elementary, Mason Elementary, Hazel Grove Elementary, Highland Park Elementary, Bernard Campbell and Summit Lakes Middle Schools, and the Lee's Summit North High School have been included in the 2003 Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Educations's annual "Top 10" list of schools with students consistently achieving high scores in one or more areas of the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) exams; and,
WHEREAS, the annual list of highest-performing schools identifies elementary, middle and high schools with the highest percentage of students scoring in the "proficient" and "advanced" levels in each subject and grade level covered by the mandatory MAP test; and,
WHEREAS, Missouri's MAP standardized exams are administered yearly in four subject areas to students in various grade levels: fourth, eighth and tenth grades test in mathematics, third, seventh, and tenth grades test in science, third, seventh and eleventh grades test in language arts, and fourth, eighth, and eleventh grades test in social studies; and,
WHEREAS, the Lee's Summit R-7 School District joins an elite group of school districts, in that, out of all the state's more than 500 school districts, just six school districts had more than 10 appearances on the state's "Top 10 list," with Lee's Summit R-7 being the only school district in the Kansas City metropolitan area to appear more than 10 times on the list; and,
WHEREAS, Pete Muenks, Director of Assessments for th...
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