Showing posts with label level 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label level 3. Show all posts
Monday, September 18, 2017

Clickbait

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Last night around 10pm, I saw the following article post from the Boston Globe: "Two dozen Boston risk being declared underperforming....
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

April Board of Ed: accountability reset

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backup is here Sagan: if we don't change the regs, all our talking will be meaningless since the Board said they wanted districts and s...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

MASBO Fall Institute : "Creating a Culture that Learns"

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Karen Mapp, Harvard Graduate School of Ed (moderating) Nina Zockoff Culbertson, Rennie Center Dianne Kelly, Superintendent, Revere Ventur...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Schools that dropped to Level 2 or 3 due to non-participation in testing.

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I just pulled this together for work, but I thought others might be interested.  A level 2 means they fell to or below 95% participation; ...
Monday, May 2, 2016

DESE on test participation

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From last week's Commissioner's update: As a follow-up to the On the Desktop, ESE sent to superintendents on April 1, 2016,ESE wo...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Not with a bang but a whimper*

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*T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men" Tonight the Worcester School Committee votes on the new superintendent of the Worcester Public Sch...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

2015 Accountability Levels: everything's made up, but the points matter

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It's time once again for the release of the Massachusetts statewide accountability levels ! The big news for Worcester yesterday is tha...
Friday, July 11, 2014

The Senate version of the charter (zombie) bill (S2262) is out [edited]

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You can find the bill here . Details below. First, up, the bits that are the same, or virtually so, to the House bill (my write-up on that...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

I see the spin is "will not impact Worcester"

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Here's how H4091 will. It does impact the Worcester Public Schools in a number of ways:  1. Those Level 3 schools that the Commis...

H 4091 passes the House

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I regret to inform you that H 4091 passed the House yesterday , with the only amendment being one that allows for extracurricular activitie...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Declaring Level 4's: "Where everything's made up and the points don't matter"

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Title courtesy, of course, of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? Since we're talking about possibly expanding which schools the state gets to ma...

More on the zombie education bill

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I took some more time on the zombie education bill   (H.3984) filed last week by Rep. Peisch, and I have a few more thoughts (in addition t...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

It's the zombie education bill!

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It's not dead yet! Rep. Alice Peisch filed a substitute education bill this morning for the bill that came out (without being recomme...