Mass. school evaluations called ‘unfair’

Fordham Institute states the obvious: DESE measures disadvantage schools with many high-needs students. “Achievement measures are strongly correlated with prior achievement — and given that low-income students tend to enter school far behind their peers, high-poverty schools are likely to fare poorly under such measures, no matter how good the school and its teachers are.”

http://baystatebanner.com/news/2017/aug/09/mass-school-evaluations-called-unfair/?page=1

2017-18 School Bell Times

Here’s a list of schools served by BPS transportation, including BPS, charter and parochial schools. Are the “50 or more bus routes to be cut” equitable across the BPS, charter, and parochial sectors? And which neighborhoods, racial groups and ELL/Special Ed populations will be most affected? Hard to say, as much of this is being planned behind closed doors.

https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/6865

Charter school leaders’ tasks are not comparable to work of superintendents

Letter To The Editor response by former superintendent to recent article about high salaries of charter school administrators: “Unlike a principal, the superintendent is tasked with planning, organizing, staffing, developing, observing, reporting, budgeting, auditing, and maintaining school plant adequacy, to name a few. He or she must operate within the policies of the school committee and be evaluated by the committee on a regular basis.All these responsibilities are carried out on behalf of up to thousands of pupils and their families in sometimes a dozen or more buildings.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/08/02/charter-school-leaders-tasks-are-not-comparable-work-superintendents/NMEfUOGxUTrMYAhGwExiyL/story.html

Some charter school leaders’ pay far outpaces their public rivals

Public records requests by by the Globe reveal the out-of-line salaries paid to many of the charter leaders in Boston, including $275,000 to the head of Conservatory Lab.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/08/01/some-boston-charter-school-leaders-paid-hefty-salaries/fbHDOC33WKmzcvvZaNNkLN/story.html?s_campaign=bostonglobe{122811316cfd5b88780f51fede8567be755cf1c68a0121e0e17981680b9735a7}3Asocialflow{122811316cfd5b88780f51fede8567be755cf1c68a0121e0e17981680b9735a7}3Afacebook