Thread on report cards https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/770189.page

It's live: https://dcschoolreportcard.org/

Are these up yet? Link?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids’ school better be 5 stars. That’s all I’m saying.

And what will you do if it's not?

Heads will roll.

Well, is it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids’ school better be 5 stars. That’s all I’m saying.

And what will you do if it's not?

Heads will roll.

Anonymous wrote:Good blog post which delineates how the STAR reports will be like - and different from - the DCPCSB's PMF reports.

https://empowerk12.org/blog/f/how-the-pmf-and-star-are-similar-and-different

This was great - thanks for posting!

Anonymous wrote:My kids’ school better be 5 stars. That’s all I’m saying.

And what will you do if it's not?

My kids’ school better be 5 stars. That’s all I’m saying.

Good blog post which delineates how the STAR reports will be like - and different from - the DCPCSB's PMF reports.

https://empowerk12.org/blog/f/how-the-pmf-and-star-are-similar-and-different

Yay for ratings!!!!

"mass availability of school ratings has accelerated divergence in housing values, income distributions, education levels, as well as the racial and ethnic composition across communities. Affluent and more educated families were better positioned to leverage this new information to capture educational opportunities in communities with the best schools."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3265316

More details in this longer video, including how subgroup performance will be accessible

https://youtu.be/CRujzBfSa5Y

Per OSSE the report cards will be released at 11 on Friday.

Also they have released a new video explaining the report cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LMHuTk0Dhg&feature=share

Anonymous wrote:when will the star ratings be available for DC? also, I wish DC provided racial data by grade for each school. That would be interesting to see the trends. Even more interesting if they could track what happens to kids scoring 4 or 5 in third grade PARCC-do those kids specifically stay at the current school? how soon do they move on and where do they? Its not ebnough to get a high score if those same families still end up fleeing DCPS. We need to do everything we can to retain as many high achieving kids and high income kids as possible.

Friday Dec 7, supposedly

Using the detailed PARCC data that OSSE already releases, you can track racial data by grade (e.g. how many students of each race were given the 3rd grade / 4th grade / 5th grade ELA exam) by year. So you can tell that there were 20 Latino students taking the test in grade 3 in 2017 and in 2018 there were 19 Latino students taking the 4th grade exam. The only caveat is that if a school has less than 10 of any racial or ethnic group the data is suppressed. https://osse.dc.gov/page/2017-18-parcc-results-and-resources

Lottery data can tell you attrition - how many students were added in upper grades is often determined by how many students left. The report cards will include retention rate.

when will the star ratings be available for DC? also, I wish DC provided racial data by grade for each school. That would be interesting to see the trends. Even more interesting if they could track what happens to kids scoring 4 or 5 in third grade PARCC-do those kids specifically stay at the current school? how soon do they move on and where do they? Its not ebnough to get a high score if those same families still end up fleeing DCPS. We need to do everything we can to retain as many high achieving kids and high income kids as possible.

Anonymous wrote:^^ typo

Should be - once those are produced, people will turn them into "rankings"

How is a tier system any different from a star system for this purpose? Of course people are going to look at a five star school or green school more favorably than a three-star or yellow school.