DC School Report Card is updated for the year
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Anonymous
They also drive out special needs kids. This is a well known phenomenon across the Basis system, and it obviously has an impact on test scores. |
Anonymous
| Define drive out and your source. |
Anonymous
Training is a good start but it's not going to stop an abrupt closure before school starts. Council had a hearing on the closure yesterday and the board member from the school that closed said they had training in the spring. They still didn't make the major changes necessary to stay open nor did they prepare for an orderly closure. No one wants to admit that they aren't going to make it. |
Anonymous
BASIS DC and other individual BASIS charter schools are non-profit. |
Anonymous
Data shows that there plenty of special needs kids at Basis. |
Anonymous
Is the hearing online anywhere? It seems clear the board of Eagle totally failed, and the CEO/CFO was massively overpaying himself while not able to actually do the job. And the PCSB also failed to recognize the severity of the situation, which is bizarre given how heavily involved they were by the end. Fail fail fail. Goodbye, public funds! Wonder what they all were spent on... maybe we'll never know. |
Anonymous
Link to full list? |
Anonymous
https://osse.dc.gov/page/dc-school-report-card-resource-library The first file Accountability Scores. I did the improvements and losses by pasting in data from the 2023 version. |
Anonymous
I guess some charters are on the chopping block? Washington Global has a National Blue Ribbon award so I am not surprised by the 96% |
Anonymous
Im burned on Blue Ribbon- bought inbounds for Noyes many moons ago, had kids, and they got in trouble for fixing the test |
Anonymous
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I wouldn’t read a huge amount into the DC Cape science results. I am a HS biology teacher whose students take the HS science cape (and previously the DC Science test).
The science test does not contribute to the school’s ratings or teacher ratings. Admin therefore don’t care about it. At my school the science test is given first in the testing window to allow all the kinks with that year’s testing to be worked out. Unlike ELA and math where content is a bit more spiraled the science test is based only on their biology course and is given when there is still 1/4 of the year remains to teach additional content. The blueprint for the test available to me lists 4 major topics and the percent of the test in each (I.e. evolution 25%). That is it. Despite asking both my admin and central office each year I have never once been able to get a report listing all of my students and their overall scores (let alone any breakdown on how they do in different subsections). There are no incentives at the student, teacher or school level to care about the test. As far as I can tell this is the first time the school averages have even been publicly available in any easy to view form and despite being listed on the report care do not contribute to the school score. |
Anonymous
I agree with most of this as a middle school teacher. I’ve never gotten scores even though I’ve asked for years. I do think they’re going to get significantly worse, though. The science “curriculum” downtown is trying to roll out is absolutely atrocious. Amplify has gaping holes in the content and blatant mistakes. Someone needs to figure out who approved it and fire them. Even the Amplify spokespeople at trainings have talked about its lack of rigor. |
Anonymous
Wow, thank you for sharing this! Can you say more about Amplify (or direct us to more info?) |
Anonymous
My understanding is Pearson sold off PARCC and the company they sold it to (New Meridian?) probably stopped supporting PARCC when everyone else dropped out. The CAPE test (ELA and Math) is exactly the same test as PARCC so I think DCPS bought the remaining tests and renamed it CAPE. At some point they will run out of tests so they will have to start making their own. At that point we’ll see scores go up as test quality and rigor go down. Unless they replace it with another major test that already exists, DC doesn’t have the resources to develop this kind of test. The CAPE science test is the same as DC Science, at least for 5th grade. The questions are mostly if not all scenario based with written response. Think like a data table of the temperature over a year and kids have to explain why the temperature changes. It’s fairly complex, involves a lot of reading and writing, and is long. DC also moved from 4/5 on PARCC being passing to 3/4/5. It’s probably a more accurate representation of passing, but they also lowered the bar. |
Anonymous
No. No one lowered any bar. The current OSSE report cards say 4/5 on CAPE is passing: “On the traditional math and ELA assessments, earning a Level 4 or 5 indicates that the student meets grade-level expectations.” 3 is passing on science, but that is not a change. There is no 5 on science and 3 has always been treated as passing. |