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For Immediate Release
Crestview Elementary Increases Overall FCAT
Scores after Implementing Voyager Passport
Eighty-Three Percent of At-Risk Third-Graders Pass FCAT
Dallas, July 18, 2006−Third-graders at Crestview Elementary continue to increase their FCAT pass rate every year since implementing the Voyager Passport™ reading intervention program, developed by Voyager Expanded Learning®.
Before Crestview began using Voyager Passport in the 2002-2003 school year, 60 percent of students passed the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). After implementing Voyager Passport during the 2003-2004 school year, 65 percent of Crestview students passed the assessment. In the 2004-2005 school year, 67 percent of students passed and this year, 79 percent of students passed the FCAT.
"Every year we have seen a significant increase in our FCAT scores," says Dr. Mildred Mejia, Crestview Elementary School principal. "We are reaching out to our students through the Voyager Passport program."
During the 2005-2006 school year, Crestview used Voyager Passport with 36 Tier II third-graders at risk of failing the FCAT to increase reading achievement and overall student performance. After the 26-week intervention program, 83 percent of these at-risk students passed the 2006 FCAT.
Crestview Elementary School is located in Miami, Florida, and serves 823 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. School demographics are: 95 percent African-American, 3 percent Hispanic, 1 percent Caucasian and 1 percent Asian/Pacific Islander. Sixty-eight percent of students at Crestview are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
About Voyager Expanded Learning
Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention and supplemental reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional development programs for school districts throughout the United States. Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills intervention programs as well as large-scale reading programs to more than 900 school districts in cities such as Dallas, Phoenix, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is part of ProQuest Education, a business segment of ProQuest Company, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-1995.
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