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Appendix A: Information Provided and Not Provided in Response to Committee Requests
Appendix A: Information Provided and Not Provided in Response to Committee Requests
Pages 227-242
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Throughout, information provided by the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) is for DCPS only, information provided by the Public Charter School Board (PCSB)
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Schools: Counts for DCPS, charters, and OSSE: Counts for schools available at each School counts difficult to reconcile- -- i.e., state by type (pre-K elementary, middle, high, grade level, DCPS and charters, 2006-2007 categories overlap special)
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referred to fiscal 2015 operating budget [PCSB, SBOE and DME staff info available on websites] DCPS: Frequently asked questions regarding proposed fiscal 2015 uniform per student funding formula Data on student mobility, across LEAs OSSE: "[Mobility data]
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Documentation about: professional development and appeals Teacher professional growth plans or process corrective action plans; numbers of • IFT data L teachers distributed into different LIFT • bservations data O stages; data management system • MPACT ratings data I Teacher and/or administrator participation • AS resources for principals T in any type of oversight or evaluation of • CS samples S the IMPACT system; procedures teachers • OC rubric for master educators P may use to challenge evaluations • aster educator job description M • verview of roster and caseload O 3. Documentation about the TAS component confirmation process of IMPACT • ccess to a sample Align TLF module A • nformation about roster confirmation I 4.
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descriptions for advanced mathematics courses and other secondary mathematics Data showing access to AP science courses: courses biology, chemistry, physics. Can you provide number of schools that offer these courses DCPS: List of AP courses offered at each and percentage of students in those schools DCPS high school, enrollment data for AP who enroll?
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Professional Development: DCPS: DCPS: examples only -- no data on participation Documentation of target professional • ritten description of professional W or information on overall objectives development opportunities for teachers development goals (including focus area, scope/frequency, • ample 2014 schedules for summer S presenter experience, objectives, and targeted institute weeks, preservice week, and group) and percentage of targeted group who professional development days, January, receive this development May, and June • ample professional development catalogs S
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DCPS: Documentation of role of social Any data available on mental health services worker for elementary, middle, and high available to DCPS and/or charter students schools DCPS: Brief written explanation of policy Social workers Documentation and/or data to show DCPS targets for Internet and computer access in individual schools, and number/percentage of schools that meet the target. We would like to have these data by ward as well so that we can have some measure of equity.
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DCPS: PS/PK enrollment for DCPS 2006 2007 and 2013-2014 PCSB: Number of charter campuses offering early childhood education, pre-K, or kindergarten, 2014-2015 Measures for monitoring quality of programs, including family care -- please provide documentation. Educator qualifications -- please provide DCPS and PCSB report that they do not have documentation of criteria, data regarding aggregated data on experience/qualifications of qualifications of educator workforce.
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On March Any data available on academic or other 19, 2014, they indicated that This is handled supports for students with special needs, at the individual LEA basis and OSSE doesn't including ELLs, special education students, have records on exactly what is done at each for DCPS and for charters school. OSSE has Title I and III plans and the equivalent for IDEA and will provide.
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Qualifications and experience of special DCPS: We do not have a way to pull an education teachers -- please provide aggregate report to show level of experience, information about how your office tracks however, teachers must be certified according to this as well as data on numbers of qualified OSSE standards. DCPS does not have trouble special education teachers, as well as general recruiting and hiring qualified special education education teachers who are trained in special teachers to fill vacancies.
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language learners with special needs Chapter 5: Learning Conditions -- EnglishLanguage Learners Number and percentage of schools offering OSSE: ELL services • umber of schools offering ELL services, N DCPS and charters (no percentages) • owerPoint summary of 2012 ELL testing P data (DC CAS math, access for ELLs, enrollment)
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• opy of Home Language Survey C • ompletion procedures prepared for local C schools Qualifications and experience of ESOL DCPS: Written response describing required teachers, bilingual teachers qualifications and experience of ESOL teachers How is academic progress of nonfluent DCPS: Written response describing means of students monitored, e.g., in mathematics, measuring academic progress of nonfluent science, etc.? students in academic subjects OSSE: Provided identification, placement, exit, and monitoring policy Chapter 6: Outcomes -- Academic Outcomes Achievement trends OSSE: • 013-2014 DC-CAS percentage proficient 2 by subgroup (not broken down by grade)
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resulted in student data being invalidated? DCPS actions And for those "how many" figures, we • aveon clarification statement March 28, C AIR originally did the test score analysis, and would also like to know how many 2011 both seemed to lose some scores along the students were involved with each set of • inks to press releases announcing report L way and not document their processes prior classroom numbers and what proportion releases to the 2011-2012 test integrity analysis.
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DCPS requests Mathematica exclude any data that needs to be removed because of test integrity concerns. Mathematica should therefore already be excluding potentially problematic test results from its calculations.
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Please • ritten description of current suspension W describe the degree of flexibility schools have data in making discipline decisions. • trategy of the Office of Student S Engagement • ummary of discipline, goals/philosophy S Retention in grade NOTES: AIR, American Institutes for Research; AP, advanced placement; CP, core professionalism; CSC, commitment to school community; DCPS, District of Columbia Public Schools; DME, Deputy Mayor for Education; ELL, English-language learners; ESOL, English as a second language; FRPL, eligible for free and reduced-price lunch; FTE, full-time equivalent; FY, fiscal year; IB, international baccalaureate; LEA, local education agency; LIFT, Leadership Initiative for Teachers; OSSE, Office of the State Superintendent of Education; OTL opportunity to learn; PCSB, Public Charter School Board; POC, point of contact; SBOE, State Board of Education; TAS, teacher-assessed student achievement data; TLF, teacher learning framework.
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