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[quote=Anonymous]No guru please! I'll think of some sort of nickname eventually. I'm just a parent who believes the PCSB should apply its own standards and stop passing along schools that are clearly failing just because they've had a slight uptick, and stop prolonging co collapse to avoid being the bad guy. Students deserve better, and closure of failing schools was always part of the deal.

Picking up slightly before I left off-- Sandman pretty critical of Rocketship board. The actual motion is that Rocketship must do a charter amendment setting a minimum ASPIRE score of 35% for SY 27-28 and SY 28-29 for Rise and Legacy. If either scores below 35% in either year, that campus must close at the end of the school year and the enrollment ceiling comes down accordingly. No more campuses and and the enrollment ceiling is capped at 1950 (current level). It's hard to say with ASPIRE being new, what the prospects are.

Thurgood Marshall: Covid bad, trying to do better w SPED, TNTP. Marino: Math proficiency very low, unlike ELA growth. A: kids come in behind, 9th graders coming in at 6th grade level, looked at curriculum and coaching, math growth is happening. Interesting discussion of why ELA is doing better than math. Cohort data shows exceeding national cohort metrics. Loss of certain experienced teachers and new teachers coming in. I'm impressed by the presenter here. Stanley Beatty: Glad to hear you are making changes bc your math scores are very bad! FY22 and 23, you had bad cash flow, then improved, how? A: Enrollment rebuild. Williams: kids coming in behind, how to judge growth? A: have natural feeders nearby/siblings. Track college persistence. Alums as teachers. Adamoh-Faniyan: graduation rates below district average, why? A: they come in behind and we can't pretend otherwise. Our population is more econ disadvantaged and SWD than before. Lots of collegegoing prep and career prep. Q: what most proud of? A: TNTP data and people being happy w the school. Sandman: How robust is board oversight of academics? A: 5X/year plus committees. Vote is unanimous w no conditions. I feel okay about this, but still, the math scores are so bad!

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