Good Job to all local schools in the Toledo metro especially TPS maintaining their rating 3 years in a row.
posted by HolyHolyToledo at 03:25 P.M. EST on Tue Aug 15, 2006 #
Personally, it would be much easier to be able to judge any school districts progress if the state would stick to the number of academic indicators each year rather than changing them every single year.
Is 6 out of 25 better than 4 out of 23?
Who knows...it does seem like 7 out of 18 is better but then again if they would just develop the indicators then actually keep them the same? Then we would have a true picture of how a school district was doing.
posted by psyche777 at 04:31 P.M. EST on Tue Aug 15, 2006 #
Does anyone know...If a school meets annual yearly progress (AYP) can they be ranked anything OTHER than continuous improvement?
If a school matches TPS in all other indicators but doesn't meet AYP, what ranking would they have?
posted by MaggieThurber at 05:47 P.M. EST on Tue Aug 15, 2006 #
All that glitters is not gold. We will be sifting through the information over the next few days and from what I looked at this morning from the Ohio Department of Education individual schools are faring no better than the last report card.
posted by purnhrt at 06:15 P.M. EST on Tue Aug 15, 2006 #
Reports of ratings and rankings are overrated since ALL schools in the state of Ohio are unconstitutionally funded. I have a serious problem since charter schools receives multi-million tax dollars when taxpayers or the public have no say on what goes on with their school. We continue to allow the state leaders to rip us off by not funding our local schools and yet they have no choice but to turn around by putting a levy on us.
No one said public schools are perfect, so let's remember it takes a community (parents, students, teachers, stakeholders, businesses, residents) to improve their schools and continue delivering the quality the children deserves.
I'm wondering where's the outrage from residents about the unconstitutional state funding and the lack of public oversight on charter schools??!!!
posted by HolyHolyToledo at 09:46 P.M. EST on Tue Aug 15, 2006 #
TPS met 6 of 25 indicators. By that alone, that's Academic Emergency, the lowest rating, which is what TPS has been regularly scoring if you only look at the indicators met.
But I believe on the last couple report cards, TPS met Adequate Yearly Progress, which allowed TPS to jump up two notches to Continuous Improvement. No matter how few the number of indicators met, a school that meets AYP can be rated no lower than Continuous Improvement.
This past school year, TPS failed to meet AYP. But TPS scored just high enough on the Performance Index Score to "earn" a Continuous Improvement rating.
The 2005-06 designations are determined according to the text and list below:
Continuous Improvement meets 13 to 18 indicators or 80 to 89.9 on the PI OR they meet AYP (the lowest a district can be rated if they meet AYP is CI).
TPS's PI scores:
School Performance Index Score (2005-06) 80.4
School Performance Index Score (2004-05) 76.5
School Performance Index Score (2003-04) 75
For this recent report card, if TPS scored on the PI similar to the two previous report cards, TPS would be rated Academic Emergency. Obviously, TPS met AYP in the 03-04 and 04-05 school years in order to get Continuous Improvement for those years.
0.5 on the PI, that's how close TPS came to being rated Academic Emergency. That's a pretty thin margin to be celebrating.
posted by jr at 07:58 A.M. EST on Wed Aug 16, 2006 #
That's a pretty thin margin to be celebrating.
i agree wholeheartedly. yet, some people are very happy by the ayp/ continuous improvement designation.
posted by wholesaler1972 at 08:38 A.M. EST on Wed Aug 16, 2006 #
Thank you for breaking that out jr. It's the first time the whole thing made sense to me. If you look at the individual markers - it doesn't add up to the rating.
I found this site and you can pull up Ohio and surrounding states and it gives an overview - some simple bar graphs. It looks as though as a state we aren't underperforming comparatively to our neighbor states.
posted by katie82640 at 02:47 P.M. EST on Wed Aug 16, 2006 #
katie, that's a good site. i have used it in the past (including for discussion on these boards) and will continue to do so.
posted by wholesaler1972 at 11:16 P.M. EST on Wed Aug 16, 2006 #
I wonder why we pit schools against one another? Why is education so splintered in Ohio? Why are there 735 different public school systems in the state? Why are there 50 different state school systems? For that matter, in this great country of ours with our mobile population, why do we continue to leave education policy and funding up to each state?
posted by RolandHansen at 07:03 A.M. EST on Thu Aug 17, 2006 #
August 17, 2006 Blade story:
"Four out of the 39 charter schools in northwest Ohio received the state's top rating - an excellent designation, which is equivalent to an A. [A]lmost half of those that received grades earned only a D or an F."
"Alliance Academy of Toledo, a kindergarten through 12th-grade school with about 350 students, was among 10 local charter schools placed in academic emergency. Letha Ferguson, the school's educational director, said the results were disappointing but not unexpected. "This is our first year with grades [kindergarten] through six, … and we didn't have any past history with the Ohio achievement tests for those grades," she said."
"Ms. Ferguson said Alliance, like many charter schools, enrolls students who have performed poorly for years in traditional public schools - accounting for the current low scores, she said."
"Kari DiCianni, executive director of The Performing Arts School of Metropolitan Toledo, said her results also were disappointing. The school, which is located downtown, fell from continuous improvement last year to academic watch. "We were taking more inner-city kids and more students from Toledo Public whose grades were low," Ms. DiCianni said."
And now from the idiots:
"Critics of the state's charter school system, such as state Sen. Teresa Fedor (D., Toledo), who is a former public school teacher, and Tom Mooney, president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers union, said this week's report cards show the schools are failing to teach children."
It's been suggested that the reason why TPS has managed to do just enough to earn a Continuous Improvement rating the last three years is because so many of TPS's ignored and poorer performing students were pulled out of TPS and enrolled into charters.
People like Fedor overlook the fact that public schools ignore some kids. These kids that are ignored by public schools are way behind when they enroll into a charter, and it takes a few years for them to catch up to where they should be. If charters were truly failing, then why are more parents pulling their kids out of districts like TPS and enrolling them into charters?
Toledo Talk user cindy said last year:
"Charter schools as with any other learning environment has it's good qualities as well as the negative. Yes, the test scores are lower due to the target population of the children, most of these children have been labeled the "throw away kids", the "children who are most troubled", the children no one wants due to one issue or another. How can one expect success when you have been labeled and treated as such? Yes, the home environment for most is not conducive to what some of us within this discussion would consider "acceptable" but that is all they know or have been allowed to have due to restrictions placed upon them by society. Most charter schools are located in an inner city environment, go figure, the rest should be common sense. State testing does not allow for cultural differences, nor academic differences, it's one test for ALL STUDENTS."
posted by jr at 08:30 A.M. EST on Thu Aug 17, 2006 #
Ratings for school buildings within TPS for the 2005-2006 school year:
Lincoln Academy for Boys Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Ella P. Stewart Academy Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Arlington Elementary - Effective
Beverly Elementary - Excellent
Birmingham Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Bowsher High School - Effective
Burroughs Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Chase Elementary - Academic Watch
Cherry Elementary - Academic Emergency
Crossgates Elementary - Effective
DeVeaux Junior High - Continuous Improvement
East Side Central Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Edgewater Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Elmhurst Elementary - Effective
Fall Meyer Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Fulton Elementary - Academic Watch
Garfield Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Glendale-Feilbach Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Grove Patterson Academy Elementary - Effective
Hale Elementary - Academic Emergency
Leverette Junior High - Academic Emergency
Harvard Elementary - Excellent
Hawkins Elementary - Effective
Jones Junior High - Academic Emergency
Keyser Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Lagrange Elementary - Academic Emergency
Larchmont Elementary - Effective
Libbey High School - Academic Watch
Longfellow Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Marshall Elementary - Academic Watch
Mckinley Elementary - Academic Watch
McTigue Junior High - Academic Watch
Mt Vernon Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Navarre Elementary - Effective
Newbury Elementary - Academic Watch
Oakdale Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Old Orchard Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Ottawa River Elementary - Effective
Pickett Elementary - Academic Emergency
Raymer Elementary - Academic Watch
Reynolds Elementary - Academic Watch
Riverside Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Robinson Junior High - Academic Emergency
Rogers High School - Continuous Improvement
King Elementary - Academic Emergency
Scott High School - Academic Watch
Sherman Elementary - Academic Emergency
Start High School - Effective
Waite High School - Continuous Improvement
Walbridge Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Washington - Continuous Improvement
Whittier Elementary - Continuous Improvement
Woodward High School - Academic Watch
Byrnedale Junior High - Continuous Improvement
East Toledo Junior High - Academic Emergency
Old West End Academy Elementary - Effective
Toledo Technology Academy High School - Excellent
57 TPS schools listed in the 2005-2006 school year ratings list.
Excellent - 3
Effective - 11
Continuous Improvement - 22
Academic Watch - 11
Academic Emergency - 10
Changes made for 2006-2007 School Year to accommodate district's building program:
East Toledo Jr. High students are attending East Broadway Middle School.
Fall Meyer students are attending Hawkins School.
Grove Patterson Academy students are attending in the DeVilbiss School building.
Jones (Grade 8) students are attending in the Libbey School building.
King students are attending Fulton, Lagrange, and Pickett.
Mt. Vernon students are attending Keyser.
posted by jr at 09:49 A.M. EST on Thu Aug 17, 2006 #
From the August 17 Blade story, Fedor said:
"[Tuesday's] report card release also shows that the legislature can no longer stand by as [charter] schools continue to fail Ohio's families and students. According to [Ohio Department of Education] data, 27.4 percent of charter schools are in academic emergency whereas not one public school district is in that category."
17.5% of TPS's schools are in academic emergency, although a couple have now been eliminated due to the construction program.
"Allison Perz, executive director of the Toledo-based Council of Community Schools, which is the authorizer of the six Leona Group charter schools in the Toledo-area and 39 others statewide, said charter schools have shown progress. Nine out of the 14 schools under the council's watch that fell into the academic emergency category are "drop-out recovery programs," Ms. Perz said."
posted by jr at 10:09 A.M. EST on Thu Aug 17, 2006 #
jr, good info...thanks.
posted by wholesaler1972 at 11:09 A.M. EST on Thu Aug 17, 2006 #
Our neighbor to the north:
544 Michigan schools fail federal standards
posted by katie82640 at 04:20 P.M. EST on Fri Aug 25, 2006 #
Let's see now. We have report cards for our students and report cards for our schools. Maybe, we need report cards on our state legislators.
posted by RolandHansen at 06:45 P.M. EST on Thu Aug 31, 2006 #
The last unaddressed point of accountability. Good idea......but how could you do that?
Well, actually the sites where you track which legislator voted how on which issue would be a good start.
posted by katie82640 at 07:57 A.M. EST on Fri Sep 01, 2006 #
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