Sucks To Be Part Of The White Hat Brigade

Administrator — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:16:33 -0700

Because Marc Dann's bringing the strongarm of the law against charter school's this week. It's like "shut down failing charter schools" month.

From a presser:

Citing a continued failure to educate children, Attorney General Marc Dann asked the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court to declare the Moraine Community School to be a failed charitable trust and to enjoin its governing body from further operating a charter school.

The Attorney General filed similar suits against two other Dayton-area community schools, Colin Powell Leadership Academy, and New Choices Community School last week in a drive to hold the state’s publicly funded charter schools accountable for their performance.

Dann's alleging the charter failed to achieve it's purpose of establishing a "high quality program" in which "all children will achieve success."

As proof, Dann pointed to four factors:

Met only three of the 32 applicable indicators for school performance;

Amassed persistently dismal Performance Index Scores, averaging 66.1 our a possible 120, giving it an institutional GPA or “F”;

Failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress standards for the past four school years;

Consistently lagged behind the performance of the West Carrollton City School District on State tests.

West Carrollton was my high school's big rival when I was in high school (go burg!). Anyways, you have to be running a pretty crappy school to run behind WC...afterall, the students had a hard time paying attention when all their buildings were mold infested.

Also - jumping back to the Columbus Mayoral race - I'd like to point out to Bill Todd and company the Performance Index score of this charter school...66.1%. Todd loves to advocate for these charter schools (and take their money). I just think it's interesting that this is the school model he's advocating for when the Columbus School District maintains an 80+% performance index. But it's all for the kids, right?

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