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New Jersey’s exit criteria are essentially the reverse of its identification criteria.
It’s proposing to exit schools from improvement status whenever the school slightly improves its relative ranking, regardless of how much improvement the school actually made. Under this approach, a school could exit improvement status simply by other schools getting worse, and not the school itself improving, let alone demonstrating a sustained trajectory of improved performance.
Additionally, New Jersey appears to have exit criteria for the schools it identifies for comprehensive support schools, and for subgroups that would, on their own, qualify for comprehensive support, but not for targeted support schools with consistently underperforming subgroups.
