Not exact matches
Public supports Common Core, and when given national
ranking of local schools, Americans give those
schools lower grades and express greater support for vouchers, charters, and teacher tenure reform
Analysis
of the new survey data show that when the
public is armed with information about the
local district's national
ranking, the share assigning an «A» or «B» grade to the
local schools falls by 11 percentage points.
Academia has a set
of standards that you move up based on the number
of articles that you get published in the highest
ranked publications, which cater to an exclusive audience
of other academics that doesn't include the general
public, community educators, and the people on the ground at
local schools.»
If CCSS were to enhance
public knowledge
of the performance
of local schools as compared to
schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the
school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are
ranked below average nationally.
But we find little evidence
of a
public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis
of new information about
local school district
rankings.
Overall,
public support for
school choice increases when the
public is informed
of the
local district's
ranking in the state or nation.
Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a
school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one
of the following conditions: the student attends a
local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community
school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying
school, the student attends a
local public school that was
ranked in the lowest 10 percent
of public schools in two
of the three most recent
rankings and the
public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying
school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1
of the
school year.
They also argued the
rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter
schools with
local public districts, many
of which are struggling urban
schools, rather than with top - performing
schools elsewhere.
The State Department
of Education's level
of concern is about chronic and excessive absenteeism is so great, that just last month the State Board
of Education announced their intention to «
rank order» all Connecticut
public schools based each
school's level
of student absenteeism and that poor absentee rates could lead to state takeover
of local schools.