Youngstown City School’s CEO Krish Mohip recently announced significant changes to how his district will evaluate its teachers.
We’re back after a little break on Friday, with a lot of central Ohio education news. Stay with me on this first one; it’s twisty. Twenty-some years ago, Columbus City Schools was embroiled in a lawsuit over the use of religious music—specifically Christian hymns and spirituals—used in its graduation ceremonies.
In the last week, central Ohioans got an interesting look at how Columbus City Schools deals with its taxpayer-provided finances and assets, courtesy of two stories from the Columbus Dispatch.
Props to Columbus City Schools for this accounting control measure that likely saved the figurative bacon of dozens of district employees. Surprisingly. (Columbus Dispatch, 11/6/17) Why the surprise?
Youngstown CEO Krish Mohip this weekend unveiled a new teacher evaluation framework coming soon to his district – in which 50% of a teacher’s performance rating will be based on how the district as a whole is doing in terms of value added measures.
Not sure why, but the story about Dayton City Schools’ contract tussle with the Preschool Promise folks—clipped earlier this week—garnered more interest than usual from readers.
In That State Up North, a debate is brewing over the state board of education.
It seems like Dayton City Schools is advocating here to receive money for pre-K kids they don’t have. But I’m probably misreading it.
Not much going on in ed news across Ohio. Must be all the anticipation of Election Day coming up. Speaking of which, interdistrict open enrollment is an important issue in regard to the levy on the ballot in Coventry Local Schools.
The D finally published some kind of actual news story based on what Bill Bush heard at the ECOT board meeting (and committee meetings and executive session) he attended earlier in the week.
We start today’s epic clips collection with a blast from the past – a legislative hearing in which a bunch of people come together to defend the Common Core. Chad is quoted within, naturally. (Gongwer Ohio, 10/24/17)
NOTE: The House Education and Career Readiness Committee of the Ohio General Assembly is hearing opponent testimony this week on House Bill 176, a proposal that we believe would significantly affect the standards, testing, and accountability infrastructure of K-12 education in Ohio.
As we’ve come to learn more about sleep and how it affects adolescents, school start times (SST) have become part of a national conversation.
CEO David Hardy yesterday released a draft of his turnaround plan for the district, dubbed the “Lorain Promise”.
Ugh. Some days the clips write themselves, and some days are like today. Our own Chad Aldis is quoted in this brief piece from public radio on the possibility that Ohio’s various diplomas may fall afoul of ESSA graduation calculation requirements. I think. (WKSU-FM, Kent, 10/19/17)
Our own Chad Aldis is quoted on the uniquely Ohio-centric nature of the attendance audit issues which resulted in a funding clawback order for ECOT (and other online schools, but who cares?) and reportedly threatens ECOT with
It’s one of those perennial ideas in education reform that never seems to get across the finish line: raising the standards for who can teach in our schools.
Just like other online general education charter schools and even brick-and-mortar charter schools before them, dropout recovery schools in Ohio are currently being ECOTted. That is, tarred with a brush meant for the much-reviled-in-whatever-form Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow.
Big changes in the district became breaking news in Youngstown this morning.
A statistic from a Fordham study regarding charter school attendance is referenced in this piece looking at education in central Ohio over the last 25 years, including both K-12 and higher ed. Nope. Me neither. (Columbus CEO, 10/9/17)
Most American teenagers plan to head off to college after high school. In my organization’s recent survey of over 2,000 U.S.
Most American public school teachers are paid according to salary schedules that take into account their years of experience and degrees earned.
In the wake of ECOT’s assertion that it will have to close its doors in January if the clawback of funds by the state continues as planned, the Dispatch wondered what might happen to said clawback if those metaphorical doors – and the funding spigot – did indeed close.
Not much to report today; which is probably fine. The hour-long panel discussion of Lorain’s journey into (and hopefully out of) Academic Distress recorded last week finally aired yesterday on Cleveland public radio’s Sound of Ideas program. Worth a listen.
Another outcome of the report card data this year is that three school districts are another step closer to falling into Academic Distress classification due to two years of bad grades.
On September 15, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) submitted its ESSA plan to the U.S. Department of Education. Ohio’s current accountability system meets most of the stipulations of the new federal law.
I have said it before, but it bears repeating: the reach of Aaron Churchill knows no geographic bounds. Here he is commenting on standardized testing in a Pennsylvania news outlet.
State supe Paolo DeMaria and veteran analyst Howard Fleeter were featured presenters at this week’s meeting of the House Speaker's Taskforce on Education and Poverty.
I was remiss in not clipping this piece from the massive “CBus Next” education package in the Dispatch last week. It is about “the future of education” and talks a lot about technology – robots, combining science with art and history classes, virtual reality, etc.
Two separate stories; a similar theme. That theme is the correlation between test scores and race/income as reflected in state report card data. First up, Aaron is quoted on that topic in the Dispatch.
