Stephen Dyer, former legislator and Senior fellow at Innovation Ohio, reviews Ohio’s school report cards here.
http://10thperiod.blogspot.com/2019/09/charter-schools-overrepresentation-of.html
Remember when charter schools were going to “save poor kids from failing public schools”? What happens when public schools outperform charter schools, as happened in 2019?
Remember when charter schools were going to show public schools how to close the achievement gaps? Not going to happen because the charter industry is failing in Ohio.
Dyer writes:
Ohio’s charter schools, which represent about 10 percent of Ohio’s school buildings, make up about 40 percent of Ohio’s school buildinsg that received overall F grades.
Factoring out charter schools shows that among the 3,029 non-charter school buildings made up the remaining 208 F buildings, or not even 7 percent of Ohio’s public school buildings. Ohio’s charter schools? A full 36 percent of them received overall F grades.
But even the degree of F grades are striking. Of the 45 Performance Index percentages that are below the 33rd percentile, 35 are charter schools, which means about 10 pecrent of all charters are below the 33rd percentile on Performance Index scores — the state’s index of proficiency.
Of the 71 school buildings that received zero gap closing points, 45 were charter schools, which means that nearly 13 percent of all charters received zero points for closing achievement gaps.
The opposite trend continues on the positive end — few charters occupy top performance positions.
Of the 281 buildings that received A grades for Performance Index, only 9 were charter schools. Again, charters are about 10 percent of all buildings, but only are 3 percent of the top scoring buildings on proficiency.
Who will “save poor kids from failing charter schools?”
When will the Ohio Legislature stop pushing failing charters and vouchers?
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Dyer isn’t in the Ohio GOP address book, getting memos- “Ohio taxpayers exist for the sole purpose of funding the grifting, racist allies of the Republican Party”.
Education policy in Ohio is crafted by those who loathe democracy and who hate their fellow citizens and neighbors which allows them to pick up public paychecks while serving oligarchs. Or, they are merely amoral focused on personal monetary gain. The descriptor applies to ALEC members especially.
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“Needless to say, it should concern many that Ohio charter schools dominate the bottom rankings among Ohio’s school buildings and appear only 1/3 as frequently as their numbers suggest they should on the top end of the performance scale.”
What it should really do is convince Ohio lawmakers and state officials that they should start investing in and supporting public schools again, after their 20 year hiatus, if indeed they actually want “good schools”.
But I’m afraid they don’t, because the last legislative session was once again utterly dominated by national ed reform lobbyists to the exclusion of actual state residents who use public schools.
They cannot quit the echo chamber. The only way to get some support for Ohio’s public school students is fire these folks and hire some public education supporters. The state is captured by a lobby. They no longer serve 90% of the students and families in the state. They serve the ed reform lobby.
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Ask the Ohio Department of Education’s SETDA members, who they serve? Is it the association’s private,”gold, silver, event and strategic partners” or, the association’s funder, Bill Gates?
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