Posts Tagged ‘CSAP’
Only right leaning school board in Colorado hits wall with vouchers by Jack Minor – In a ruling that critics say will harm needy children, a Denver District Court judge has blocked Douglas County’s implementation of a scholarship program that would allow parents to send their children to the school of their choice. In the [...]
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by Jack Minor – The federal government has proposed a remedy for the low CSAP scores in District 6, just eliminate the testing requirements. State CSAP scores were released last Wednesday. The results showed a 4 percent drop in three of the District high schools, Greeley West, Greeley Central and Northridge. Overall, scores [...]
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by Jack Minor While Greeley had a single instance of a teacher cheating on the CSAP, Atlanta has a far more widespread cheating problem; reportedly caused by a culture that is “run like the mob.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that a special investigation by the governor revealed that 178 educators, including 38 principals in three school [...]
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By Mike Bauman Last week people from every demographic and ethnicity waited in line for more than 24 hours to participate in what one observer described as an “Oklahoma Land Rush” –like race to ensure the best place in line. They were not running for the best spot to homestead. Nor were they racing for [...]
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By Mike Bauman The School Board’s District Advisory Committee recently said in a report to the Board of Education, they could find little evidence that School District 6 needed additional choices at the middle school level. A review of the facts reported this past year shows another picture. The most recent CSAP scores shows District [...]
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For a student to earn an advanced score on just one of his or her CSAP tests is quite an accomplishment. So when a student earns three advanced ratings – in reading, writing and math – that’s even more noteworthy. A review of individual student data from the recently released 2010 CSAP exam results shows [...]
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By Mike Bauman Well folks, I have to admit, I got scooped by the Trib. I was working on this story, but they beat me to it. Here’s what they wrote: http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20100809/NEWS/100809723/1051&ParentProfile=1001 If you’re interested, here’s more of the story: My sources for this story were two District 6 teachers at the middle and high [...]
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By Jack Minor At the Greeley/Evans District 6 School Board meeting last Monday night, board members discussed the ramifications of the Education Accountability Act passed by the state legislature that now allows the State to accredit school districts. Under a new system of ratings, to be finalized later this year, individual schools will be accredited [...]
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By Jack Minor, For the Greeley Gazette The percentage of District six third-grade students reading at or above grade level rebounded from a two-point decrease last year, increasing two points this school year. Preliminary data from the 2010 third-grade CSAP Reading exams released by the Colorado Department of Education revealed 65 percent of District 6 [...]
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