"...This is not a 1 Year Phenomena....."
Michael Roth, Interim Superintendent of the Englewood Public Schools - Addressed the public at the Englewood School Board Meeting, October 16, 2014.
This is what the Interim Superintendent had to say about Test Scores.
This is what the Interim Superintendent had to say about Test Scores.
"Since we received the scores, we’ve been very concerned. We
have been taking them apart trying to find out, what went wrong, what is not going
right. However, there are 2 particular areas.
1 is from 3rd to 4th grade in
Language Arts. The other one is going from 6th to 7th grade in
mathematics.
Where the other scores went up a couple of points or down a couple
of points, those 2 specific areas fell off a cliff. They didn’t go up or down
by 1 or 2 points. They went off by almost 30 points. We’ve been trying to pull
it apart.
We’ve gone back to approximately 2006 so far.
That’s been happening in Englewood every single year. I
don’t wanna give you a glib, answer. Right now, I am as confused as you. It
doesn’t make sense that on the other years, there is fluctuation of a couple points,
which is normally what you expect. If
you’re getting better, you’ll see a certain trend going upward. If there is a
problem you will see a certain trend going downward. You never see a 30 point
drop. I mean, it just doesn’t happen, and yet…
I don’t accept that as an answer this is not a one
year phenomena. This has been happening, or close to it, for every single
year. There is always a reason. There is a cause and effect. We’re going to
have to find it. We are going to work to find it and I don’t want to give you a
glib answer. I just don’t know.
That’s why I wanted people to see unadorned facts and
statistics. So we can dedicate ourselves to doing something about it. It doesn’t
do any good to not face the facts. And that’s what it is…it is a very fair
question. And I’m going to have to come to you with some answers. But I just
don’t have them now. I don’t have them now."
Stephen Brown was School Board President 2006 - w/vice President Glenn Garrison
" " 2007 - w/vice President
Glenn Garrison was president in 2008 - w/vice President Stephen Brown
Henry Pruitt III was president in 2009 - w/vice President Stephen Brown
Stephen Brown was also President of the Board of Education in 2012 - 2013 and spearheaded the Outsourcing of irreplaceable student support staff.
The people of Englewood voted Stephen and Glenn off the School Board in 2013.
These 2 SEEK members are the architects of the present situation and cannot be trusted to
correct it. They are clearly part of the problem.
Stephen Brown was also President of the Board of Education in 2012 - 2013 and spearheaded the Outsourcing of irreplaceable student support staff.
The people of Englewood voted Stephen and Glenn off the School Board in 2013.
These 2 SEEK members are the architects of the present situation and cannot be trusted to
correct it. They are clearly part of the problem.
History cannot be changed simply because 2 SEEK Candidates want to turn back the sands of time and rewrite it for themselves.
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