Bill Phillis of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy points out the obvious: State-issued school grades punish schools and districts for enrolling too many poor kids.
Ohio’s school report card grades predict median household income, child poverty rate, level of education attainment of adults
An “F” rating on Ohio’s school report card is guaranteed in districts with lowest median household income, highest child poverty rates and lowest level of education attainment by adults.
Rich Exner of the Cleveland Plain Dealerdid the numbers. “A” districts on average have the highest median household income and “F” districts have the lowest. Low poverty rates and high education attainment rates are found in “A” rated districts; and high poverty rates and low education attainment rates are found in “F” rated districts.
That Ohio’s report card measures demographics and not the aptitude and competence of the board of education and its personnel is obvious; however, state officials blame low report card grades on school district leaders and personnel. Therefore, state officials want to have the state takeover “F” rated school districts. Totally illogical.
The state takeovers in Youngstown and Lorain have failed to produce positive results; however, some members of the Senate Education Committee want to continue down the path of this failed strategy. How asinine.
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A 2013 Stanford Study revealed that this was the case in every country PISA tested. I’m sure the corporate charter school vampires and their minions will never mention this study unless they attempt to apply flawed logic to it to discredit the report.
In fact, the corporate charter school industry did try to discredit this report, but the author/s of the report stood by their research.
“Martin Carnoy and Richard Rothstein have revised certain numbers cited in the story below about their report (What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance?) after being made aware of more accurate information concerning the survey and timing of U.S. students taking the PISA test in 2009. The revisions do not change the report’s conclusions.” …
The report also found:
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/january/test-scores-ranking-011513.html
And that SCREAMS for an answer to this question:
If America’s public schools are doing better than the rest of the developed world when it comes to teaching disadvantaged children (most of those children live in poverty and the U.S. has the largest number of children living in poverty in the developed world), why are these greedy, fraudulent, lying, corrupt, corporate vampires out to destroy those public schools and replace them with inferior corporate-controlled schools that have failed repeatedly for more than two decades to achieve the same results?
Good point, Lloyd. That should be a question for Betsy DeVos. Vouchers are the worst; they are literally like throwing money away.
Vouchers are worse than throwing public money away. Betsy the Brainless DeVos is the anti-Robbin Hood stealing from the working people and giving to the wealthy.
When The State took over before M White (Was Mayor then) put in Charge we had more supplies. It was better.
Also CMSD always was rated an F but that never
Stopped them from taking our funds or using our busses for Charter and Religious Schools
Bill Gates’ corporatization found resistance in the public schools. The Superintendent of Los Angeles Catholic schools became a Fellow of the Gates-funded Pahara Institute in 2018.
A Catholic school chain that is in almost 1/2 the states has 3 schools in Ohio. Reports describe the chain as purchasing Common Core curricula and using blended learning. A prototype for the chain is in a Calf. city. It staffs with 1 teacher for 60 students (and, one tutor and one coach). It sounds a lot like Bill and Zuck’s investment in Bridge International Academies, a business concept with an estimated ROI of 20%.
Every American should read the profile of Tim Busch at the National Catholic Reporter. Scary.