FRANKFORT, Ky. (WSAZ) – The Kentucky Division of Training (KDE) launched annual Faculty Report Card knowledge from the 2021-2022 tutorial 12 months on Tuesday, as required by statute and below the federal Each Pupil Succeeds Act.
Assessments have been totally administered to greater than 383,000 college students in grades 3 via 8 and 10 via 11 in the course of the spring of 2022. Accountability and federal statuses – similar to Complete Faculty Enchancment and Focused Faculty Enchancment – are being reported for the primary time since 2019.
Dr. Jason E. Glass, commissioner of the Kentucky Division of Training, mentioned Kentucky’s outcomes are in line with what different states are experiencing.
“There will likely be no fast repair for the challenges our college students endured in the course of the pandemic,” Glass mentioned. “It should take time and assets.”
Kentucky has acquired greater than $2 billion in federal funding via the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act to assist speed up studying and get extra help to districts and the scholars who want it essentially the most.
Glass mentioned serving to college students get better and thrive will take collective motion, dedication, and assets from native, state and federal companions. He added, “It’s necessary for all of us to make use of this knowledge responsibly to assist inform dad and mom and households about their pupil’s colleges and to permit native leaders to focus on assets to communities and colleges that want them most.”
This 12 months’s evaluation and accountability report can’t be immediately in comparison with earlier years attributable to important adjustments within the evaluation and accountability techniques. Starting this 12 months, Kentucky’s 2022 Faculty Report Card will characteristic the state’s new color-coded accountability system, which was beforehand a five-star system. Utilizing knowledge from the 2021-2022 college 12 months, the accountability system supplies a color-coded score for all colleges at every stage (elementary, center, excessive) starting from purple (lowest) to blue (highest). Districts and the state obtain a separate color-coded score for every stage of faculties (elementary, center, excessive). Kentucky’s Senate Invoice (SB) 158 (2020) made important adjustments to the statewide accountability system, together with:
● Efficiency primarily based on a mixture of educational and college high quality indicators and measures, often called “state indicators;”
● Necessities {that a} college’s indicators, general efficiency standing and adjustments be displayed on an internet coloured dashboard;
● Necessities that state indicators be evaluated on “standing” and “change,” and defines the phrases.
WSAZ discovered a majority of districts fell inside the decrease general efficiency score.
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