Why is the DOE not intervening with schools like the Delaware School for the Deaf whose best proficiency rates have been between 20% and 30% in spite of nearly as many staff as students? Is it because there are no alternatives? How do they give equal accountability if they continue to be able to claim met AYPs? Don't those students matter? Has the appropriateness of student placement been checked as requested?
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Brittany O'Shea
11 years ago
yes
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elizabeth allen
11 years ago
DELAWARE, THIS IS IT. Humpety Dumpety can be dumped.
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Mary E McGraw
11 years ago
Please have them read about how Finland has improved their schools and become number one. We need to stop all of this tagging and blaming. These schools are doing wonderful work for students.
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Todd D. Stephan
11 years ago
you can not pressure schools to be better, DOE must work with the School Districts, School Boards and School Administrations to develop a plan - not dictate a plan to improve the schools.
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Brian Stephan
11 years ago
You can't negotiate in good faith when one side demands agreement to all their terms before sitting down to talk. The DASL report commissioned by the DoE itself found all three CSD schools making significant progress in closing the achievement gaps that DoE claims to be concerned about. If DoE rejects CSDs own assessment and their own commissioned assessment, what makes their own assessment the right way to go? none of this makes sense from the perspective of the students, who are being used as pawns in this back and forth embarrassment coming out of Dover.
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Keith Mullen
11 years ago
I believe that you need to start with the community first. Put real resources in place to change the community our students live in and their mindsets. Build from the ground up!
I just wish The Central School could have the same impact on all the changes happening to our students.
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Sue Ellen Dubia
11 years ago
Our city students need all day preschool as well as all day Kindergarten. Also some of them need a prefirst grade if they are lagging behind instead of repeating K or first and feeling like a failure. There a lot of ways we can make changes and enrich our students. Charter for our city schools without exceptional teachers is NOT what will improve our schools and student success.
Let's really get to the bottom of the issue! The families need support. Many of them live in poverty and don't have an education themselves! If you want to fix the problem, help the families! The rest will then be easier.
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Chris Meanor
11 years ago
DOE has it all wrong; a different solution MUST be enacted!
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Richard D Hanel
11 years ago
forego federal NCLB mandates, compensate for the loss of the aide associated with it and return schools to local control, which once was considered community collaborative government at its finest. Delaware could do this NOW.
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Gretchen Pikus
11 years ago
committed to student learning!
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Cristina Kraiter
11 years ago
Education is important. Today students are tomorrow's leaders. Teachers need to be respected. No shortcuts.
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Rebecca Donahue
11 years ago
Accountability for families is necessary.
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Sara Wilkinson
11 years ago
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It is important that we keep what is best for kids foremost in all educational decisions. Removing the principal from Stubbs Elementary is certainly not best for those students.
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Stephanie Johnson
11 years ago
Why did the state refuse to sign their own report BANCROFT passed with 4s and 3s
Help DE!
Why is the DOE not intervening with schools like the Delaware School for the Deaf whose best proficiency rates have been between 20% and 30% in spite of nearly as many staff as students? Is it because there are no alternatives? How do they give equal accountability if they continue to be able to claim met AYPs? Don't those students matter? Has the appropriateness of student placement been checked as requested?
yes
DELAWARE, THIS IS IT. Humpety Dumpety can be dumped.
Please have them read about how Finland has improved their schools and become number one. We need to stop all of this tagging and blaming. These schools are doing wonderful work for students.
you can not pressure schools to be better, DOE must work with the School Districts, School Boards and School Administrations to develop a plan - not dictate a plan to improve the schools.
You can't negotiate in good faith when one side demands agreement to all their terms before sitting down to talk. The DASL report commissioned by the DoE itself found all three CSD schools making significant progress in closing the achievement gaps that DoE claims to be concerned about. If DoE rejects CSDs own assessment and their own commissioned assessment, what makes their own assessment the right way to go? none of this makes sense from the perspective of the students, who are being used as pawns in this back and forth embarrassment coming out of Dover.
I believe that you need to start with the community first. Put real resources in place to change the community our students live in and their mindsets. Build from the ground up!
I just wish The Central School could have the same impact on all the changes happening to our students.
Our city students need all day preschool as well as all day Kindergarten. Also some of them need a prefirst grade if they are lagging behind instead of repeating K or first and feeling like a failure. There a lot of ways we can make changes and enrich our students. Charter for our city schools without exceptional teachers is NOT what will improve our schools and student success.
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Let's really get to the bottom of the issue! The families need support. Many of them live in poverty and don't have an education themselves! If you want to fix the problem, help the families! The rest will then be easier.
DOE has it all wrong; a different solution MUST be enacted!
forego federal NCLB mandates, compensate for the loss of the aide associated with it and return schools to local control, which once was considered community collaborative government at its finest. Delaware could do this NOW.
committed to student learning!
Education is important. Today students are tomorrow's leaders. Teachers need to be respected. No shortcuts.
Accountability for families is necessary.
It is important that we keep what is best for kids foremost in all educational decisions. Removing the principal from Stubbs Elementary is certainly not best for those students.
Why did the state refuse to sign their own report BANCROFT passed with 4s and 3s
I agree!