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Race to the Top. District of Columbia. State-Reported APR

2012
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Book Synopsis Race to the Top. District of Columbia. State-Reported APR by : Department of Education (ED)

Download or read book Race to the Top. District of Columbia. State-Reported APR written by Department of Education (ED). This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper describes the District of Columbia's progress in implementing a comprehensive and coherent approach to education reform from the time of application through June 30, 2011. In particular, this report highlights key accomplishments over the reporting period in the four reform areas: standards and assessments, data systems to support instruction, great teachers and leaders, and turning around lowest-achieving schools. Washington, DC has made significant progress in implementing a comprehensive approach to education in the four core reform areas since receiving the Race to the Top grant. Highlights of this report include: (1) Race to the Top has collaborated with the Division of Standards, Assessment and Accountability to create an aggressive Common Core Standards Roll-out Plan for the District. Each LEA (local educational agency) will implement the Common Core Standards beginning in school year 2011-12. During the spring and summer of 2011, OSSE (Office of the State Superintendent of Education) and Race to the Top participating LEAs provided extensive professional development for their teachers, including those teaching special education. Additionally, OSSE provided guidance to all LEAs so they could provide information on the Common Core Standards to parents through parent meetings and Back-to-School nights using parent guides created by the National PTA; (2) Washington, DC awarded $5,000,000 in Instructional Improvement Systems grants to four lead Local Education Agencies. These lead LEAs with expertise in instructional improvement systems are sharing their technology and expertise with 20 LEAs that are not as far along in their data systems initiatives; (3) DC has developed a number of rigorous metrics and tools for measuring the performance of teachers and schools and informing improvements to instruction. OSSE has developed common criteria for Race to the Top participating LEAs' teacher and leader evaluation systems. OSSE is in the process of managing a process of reviewing these plans to ensure that they meet these criteria. DC has adopted a common schoolwide growth model for use in the 2011-12 school year that is based on 2010-11 DC CAS data. The model results will be used as part of the Public Charter School Board's Performance Management Framework, DC Public Schools' School Score Card, and OSSE will give the data to LEAs to inform their practice. DC has also adopted a common value added model for use in participating LEAs' teacher evaluations; and (4) Although funding is not scheduled to begin until Year 2 of the Race to the Top grant, Washington, DC has been a leader in implementing initiatives for turning around the lowest-achieving schools. During the reporting period, DCPS, its largest LEA, implemented plans for turnarounds in 21 of its most struggling schools, including significant staffing changes at six schools being reconstituted under the No Child Left Behind law. DC Public Schools also has a comprehensive screening process that produces high quality teachers and principals for all of their schools, many of which are low achieving. As it relates to Race to the Top activity, DC PS has defined needs and requirements for SY11-12, established a detailed turnaround plan and timeline for each school slated for turnaround, posted job requisitions for enhanced capacity, and identified potential vendors to support the work. [For the parent document, "Race to the Top Annual Performance Report," see ED529267. For the state summary report, "Race to the Top. District of Columbia Report. Year 1: School Year 2010-2011. [State-Specific Summary Report]," see ED529308.].

Race to the Top. District of Columbia Report. Year 1

2012
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Download or read book Race to the Top. District of Columbia Report. Year 1 written by Department of Education (ED). This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This State-specific summary report serves as an assessment of the District of Columbia's Year 1 Race to the Top implementation, highlighting successes and accomplishments, identifying challenges, and providing lessons learned from implementation to date. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) manages the District of Columbia (District) educational system. The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) is the largest local educational agency (LEA) in the District. There are also over 50 public charter schools that operate as independent LEAs. OSSE, DCPS, and charter schools have come together to implement the reform efforts that the District outlined in its Race to the Top grant. The District is receiving a total of $74,998,962 in Race to the Top funds. The District's broad goals under Race to the Top include building capacity to support LEAs, moving swiftly to adopt the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), funding the development of instructional improvement systems (IIS) for LEAs to support data-driven instruction, building and supporting stronger pipelines for effective teachers and principals, and creating conditions of support and attracting effective educators to the District's persistently lowest-achieving schools. In its Year 1 Annual Performance Report (APR), OSSE reported 30 participating LEAs (DCPS and 29 charter LEAs) as of June 30, 2011. This represents 90 percent of the District's K-12 students and over 92 percent of its students in poverty. OSSE included DCPS and charter schools in the planning and implementation of its reform work. OSSE established task forces focusing on the CCSS; human capital; student growth measures; and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The State Board of Education adopted the CCSS for the 2011-2012 school year (SY), and all participating LEAs developed a transition plan for implementing the CCSS and received professional development on it. OSSE also awarded major competitive subgrants to LEAs for work in such areas as developing an IIS, professional learning communities, and teacher residency programs. During the first year of the grant, OSSE experienced significant turnover among leadership and staff. Multiple individuals have served as the lead for Race to the Top, each one for fewer than six months. Additionally, no one who was involved in writing the original application remains with the OSSE team responsible for administering the District's Race to the Top grant. Despite changes in leadership and staff during the first year of the grant, the District has made strides toward accomplishing its Race to the Top goals and has leveraged other senior OSSE staff to keep work moving forward. There have, however, been delays in finalizing a District-wide education research agenda; releasing CCSS resources; providing support to intervention efforts in chronically lowest-achieving schools; and receiving, reviewing, and approving LEA plans for teacher and leader evaluations. Because of the turnover in staff during Year 1 of the grant, OSSE did not spend all of its Year 1 funding allotted for personnel. OSSE will hire additional staff in Year 2 with the personnel funds remaining from Year 1. Also, OSSE plans to identify a permanent Race to the Top lead in Year 2. Finally, OSSE will continue recent efforts to better align its Race to the Top intervention efforts with its School Improvement Grant (SIG) efforts, both at OSSE and DCPS. A glossary is included. (Contains 6 footnotes.) [For the parent document, "Race to the Top Annual Performance Report," see ED529267. For the full report, "Race to the Top. District of Columbia. State-Reported APR: Year One," see ED529307.].

Four Years Later, Are Race to the Top States on Track?

2014
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Book Synopsis Four Years Later, Are Race to the Top States on Track? by : Tiffany D. Miller

Download or read book Four Years Later, Are Race to the Top States on Track? written by Tiffany D. Miller. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race to the Top (RTT) is a first-of-its kind $4.35 billion competitive grant program designed to spur state-level education innovation to boost student achievement, close achievement gaps, and prepare students for college and careers. Originally authorized in 2009 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, RTT encourages states to develop and implement key reform strategies around four core components: (1) Adopting rigorous college- and career-ready standards and assessments; (2) Recruiting, evaluating, and retaining highly effective teachers and principals; (3) Building data systems that measure student success and inform teaching and learning; and (4) Turning around low-performing schools. In total, 45 states and the District of Columbia applied for funding in three phases. The U.S. Department of Education announced the Phase 1 winners--Delaware and Tennessee--in March 2010. A few months later, the Phase 2 winners--District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island--were announced. Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania were awarded Phase 3 grants in December 2011. March 2014 marks four years since the first grants were announced, and in a little over a year, the RTT funding to these initial set of states will end. An examination of the U.S. Department of Education's latest Annual Performance Report, or APR, data around the four core RTT components demonstrates the states' progress. When necessary, the APRs are supplemented with extant data from other sources, such as the Government Accountability Office. Three overarching findings emerged in the review of the data: (1) Many of the lowest-performing schools in RTT states have achieved impressive results in a short period of time; (2) Four RTT states are at or near full implementation of their educator evaluation systems, and all other states are in the process of implementing their systems. Implementing new, more rigorous educator evaluation systems is technical and arduous work; and (3) All RTT states have adopted college- and career-ready standards and are making progress toward implementation of assessments aligned with those standards.

An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia

2015-08-31 Education
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Book Synopsis An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia by : National Research Council

Download or read book An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia written by National Research Council. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia is a comprehensive five-year summative evaluation report for Phase Two of an initiative to evaluate the District of Columbia's public schools. Consistent with the recommendations in the 2011 report A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools, this new report describes changes in the public schools during the period from 2009 to 2013. An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia examines business practices, human resources operations and human capital strategies, academic plans, and student achievement. This report identifies what is working well seven years after legislation was enacted to give control of public schools to the mayor of the District of Columbia and which areas need additional attention.

Failure

2016-06-01 Education
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Book Synopsis Failure by : Vicki E. Alger

Download or read book Failure written by Vicki E. Alger. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship among the federal government, the states, and parents with regard to education is increasingly dysfunctional. Parental control over their children's education has gained impressive momentum in recent years at the state level. Meanwhile, states have been increasingly willing to relinquish sovereignty over education in exchange for more federal dollars. Failure would help bring clarity to these issues by examining whether students and the country better off after 30 years with the Department of Education and suggesting alternatives to an ever-expanding federal education bureaucracy. Part I would begin by examining the development of the current Department of Education, including the legislation that gave rise to it, and the pressure groups that have shaped it. Additional chapters would examine related issues including the arguments for and against the creation of a national education department, its origin, current structure, spending, and growth over time. Part II would examine the results to date against the education department's own standards. These include overall student achievement nationally before and after the advent of the Department of Education as well as international comparisons of U.S. student achievement. Outcomes of some of the largest Department of Education programs would also be considered in this section, along with some of the lesser-known department programs and initiatives. Part III would examine truly federal alternatives to the current tug-of-war between the national and state governments in light of the growing parental-choice movement. Included in this section would be chapters examining a strict-constitutionalist model, which denies any federal authority in education. Another alternative model examined would be the National Bureau of Education model, inspired by the original 1867 precursor to the current Department of Education, whose primary mission was to serve as a repository of information so schools nationwide could emulate best practices. In addition, this section would seek to include cross-country comparisons of education systems of top-performing Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.

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