Friday, March 1, 2013
Brecksville-Broadview Heights district officials present the proposed changes to how schools are graded — and how teachers are evaluated.
Just as the ink was drying on the Brecksville-Broadview Heights School District's official “Excellent With Distinction” recognition on the annual report card, lawmakers in Columbus are planning to restructure the process. Carla Calevich, the district’s director of curriculum and instruction, told the board of education about the new legislation at Monday night’s meeting. House Bill 555 will require a new report card for all districts and schools in Ohio. And instead of categories such as “excellent” and “continuous improvement,” it will be a straight letter grade. It looks as if the district would have gotten an “A” for the 2011-12 school year if the new report cards would've been issued. “Some aspects are already in effect,” said …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Ohio Board of Education voted Monday to delay the release of the state school report cards. No date has been set for when they will be released.
The Ohio School Report cards, scheduled to be released next week, will be delayed. The Ohio Board of Education voted Monday to delay the release of the state school report cards, reports the Columbus Dispatch. No date has been set for when they will be released, but the issue will be revisited when the board meets in September. The unprecedented delay comes as the state auditor is investigating whether some school districts have manipulated data to obtain better results on the annual performance measurements. The allegations, which began in Columbus schools, are that school employees withdrew and then re-enrolled students so their test scores wouldn’t be included. Other school districts are suspected of the same practice. State board …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
You can learn how any Ohio school district performs by using this easy online search form.
Every year the state of Ohio rates its 600-plus school districts by more than two dozen criteria, from graduation rates to how students perform on standardized tests in reading, math and other subject areas. Ratings for the school year that just ended won't be out until August, but you can get a good idea how things stand by looking at data for 2010-2011. The ratings are not without controversy, of course. Some argue that they force a "teaching-to-the-test" approach that undermines real learning. And districts with already high-achieving students say it's tough for them to meet requirements that they demonstrate year-over-year improvements. But faulty or no, the annual report card remains one of the few ways to make meaningful comparisons …
