Key Points

Future Ready PA Index Website

The Future Ready PA Index will serve as Pennsylvania’s one-stop location for comprehensive information about school success, and will use a dashboard model to highlight how schools are performing and making progress on multiple indicators.

The dashboard approach to school reporting:  

• Increases emphasis on student growth measures, which incentivizes a focus on all learners and is less sensitive to demographic variables.

• Measures English language acquisition among ELL students, not simply performance on a test of grade level ELA standards.

• Incentivizes career awareness instruction beginning at the elementary level.

• Addresses the issue of unequal weighting of content areas in the current SPP.

• Provides indicators of student success after graduation.

• Increases the emphasis on student access to course offerings such as AP, IB, college credit, and CTE programs of study.

• Allows LEAs to include locally-selected reading assessments (Grade 3) and math assessments (Grade 7) as additional snapshots of student progress.

• Incentivizes schools to offer career pathways that culminate with high value, industry recognized credentials.