This comprehensive Pennsylvania school accountability tool uses three color-coded categories — academic performance, student progress, and college/career readiness — instead of a single summative score.
What is the Future Ready PA Index
This Pennsylvania education planning system provides a consistent framework and online tool for school districts and other local education agencies to continuously improve teaching and learning.
Future Ready Comprehensive Planning Portal (FRCPP)
Under Act 13 of 2020 these are the three types of employees subject to evaluation in Pennsylvania schools.
Classroom Teachers, Non-Teaching Professionals, & Principals
PVAAS measures this by comparing the average of exiting achievement to the average entering achievement.
Student Growth
Local Education Agencies must submit this annual summary in the Future Ready Comprehensive Planning Portal showing how many educators fall into each performance rating category.
Educator Effectiveness Annual Report
On the Future Ready PA Index, a school performance depicted in green means results are at this level relative to statewide interim goals or specific performance standards.
Meets Statewide Interim Goals or Performance Standars
Every three years a local education agency must submit their comprehensive plan along with five additional plans. Two of these plans must be updated every six years. These are the two plans that must be revised every six years.
Induction Plan (Ch. 49)
Gifted Education Plan (Ch. 16)
Observation & Practice is this percentage of the evaluation for a Non-Teaching Professional with Building Level Data.
90%
PVAAS uses analysis of prior assessment history to provide two main types of data: growth and this.
projections to future achievement
Accurate teacher-specific PVAAS reporting depends heavily on correct student-teacher linkages from this process.
Roster Verification
Pennsylvania sets statewide long-term goals for several ESSA indicators with an endpoint in this school year to reduce by half the percentage of students not meeting targets.
2032-2033 school year
The current Pennsylvania Consolidated State Plan stipulates schools with participation rates below 95% are required to develop and implement this plan.
95% Assessment Participation Plan
Educators who receive a rating of Needs Improvement or Failing must be supported through this structured plan focused on professional growth.
Educator Improvement Plan
Growth and projection reporting begins in this grade level for state assessments.
Grade 4
These are the three main categories into which all indicators on the Future Ready PA Index are grouped.
Statewide Assessment Measures, On-Track Measures, and College and Career Ready Measures
This On-Track Measure in the Future Ready PA Index focuses on progress toward English language proficiency for English learners and serves as a federal accountability indicator.
English Language Proficiency Indicator
This is the part of the School Reconfiguration Plan that is always open for updates.
Administrative Changes
Within the Teacher Specific Data component of a Classroom Teacher, what percentage will each of the measures calculate to be if the classroom teacher has two applicable measures (IEP Goals Progress and Achievement on State Assessments).
5% each
This metric is appropriate for comparing growth across schools or districts.
Average Growth Index (AGI) or Effect Size
This is the monthly newsletter that shares updates and important dates related to FRCPP and is housed within the FRCPP SAS Community
TipJar- join the TipJar Community on SAS
This indicator reflects the percentage of high school graduates who enroll in higher education, enlist in the military, or enter the workforce within 16 months of graduation.
Postsecondary Transition to School, Military, or Work indicator
This report consistently locks down on June 1, however it is not a required report for LEAs to complete.
FID Plan
Under Act 13's rating scale, a numerical score of 1.50-2/49 corresponds to this overall performance designation.
Proficient
For inclusion in the building-level score, the PVAAS Average Growth Index is converted to a 100-point scale, ranging from this value to 100.
50
This is the role in MyPDESuite that has access to assign and give permissions to access and sign plans within FRCPP
LocalAdminUser