Suggestion Box EPSD: The Expectations Described Here...

Ivy?

...should apply to every single student in the 3rd grade, not just the ones in this program. 
This is not Education Reform. 
This
is 
tracking.
http://www.epsd.org/site_res_view_folder.aspx?id=546c6af5-6dcd-4e9b-8e29-cc4c649005d7

Do you have a child going into the 3rd grade next year? Click the link below and fill out an application. Every child should have the opportunity to experience a program that has high expectations.
http://www.epsd.org/www/epsd/site/hosting/Ivy%20Program/Ivy%20Program%20Application.pdf

                                           How are the chldren?

Do You Understand the New Jersey 2011 - 2012 School Report Card?

Trenton, NJ - The Department of Education today released Report Cards for each public school in the state for the 2010-11 school year.

The Report Cards are released annually to provide user-friendly information to the public about school performance. The information in these Report Cards also provides useful data to educators and districts to help develop local improvement plans.

Based in part on these results, the Department of Education has already begun interventions in Priority Schools - the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools in the state over the past three years - with full support to begin in September through the state's new Regional Achievement Centers.

The Report Card contains information in the five areas below.
 1. School environment
 2. Student information
 3. School performance
 4. Staff information
 5. District financial data

Beginning next school year, the Department will develop and publish new school performance reports for every school in New Jersey to replace the current bifurcated School Report Card and NCLB Report Card publications.

Through these reports, the Department will set specific school and subgroup performance targets for both language arts and math, and will report annual progress towards meeting those goals. In addition, the reports will include a number of new data points including;

•  progress towards closing achievement gaps, 
• comparison to "peer schools" with similar demographics, 
• growth as measured through Student Growth Percentiles on state tests over time,
• and additional college and career readiness data points. 

These public reports will help districts and schools to:

• engage in local performance management by setting local performance goals, 
• identifying strengths and weaknesses, 
• and developing local plans to focus on areas of low performances in their districts.... 

The School Report Cards for the 2010-11 school year can be found at the link below: http://education.state.nj.us/rc/rc11/ 

The full press release is here: 
http://www.state.nj.us/education/news/2012/0531rc.htm

Guide to the New Jersey Report Card 2011:
http://education.state.nj.us/rc/rc11/guide.htm

Suggestion Box EPSD: Branding & Yet Another Broken Promise

This year makes 42 years since the South building on the Dwight Morrow High School Campus was named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hall. It was the year I graduated from high school. We called it King Hall. Isn't it about time that those letters appeared on the outside of the building facing the street? Paint is quite reasonable these days. Another promise gone and drying  up by the wayside like a raisin in the sun.

You would not believe how much such a seemingly small thing can do to help healing begin. 

                               How are the children?

Suggestion Box: EPSD

In source the Public Relations position. Give the responsibility to someone who cares.

And the beat goes on...