Professional development
50 dollars per student for focused PD
Licensure
- Communicate with him for ways to improve
- Process that works for the kids in the state
Status
- Post reform
- Numbers of schools
254 districts
575 elementary schools
213 middle schools
323 high schools
- New rules & regs by july 1
- Consolidation consumed the State Department prior to July 1
- Test scores are up
- Literacy
- End of course exams - algebra and geometry - concern area in January
- Act up SAT higher
- AYP school improvement list
- Half of the schools met their progress goals
- 60 schools added approx to the school improvement list
- Just because you are on the School improvement list doesn't mean you are a failure
- Vision
- Best in the nation
- Get highly qualified teachers in the classroom where there are the greatest needs
- Keep the administrators as well
- Celebrate the dignity of each child in the classroom
- 300 million new dollars foundation aid
134 million
40 million
Early intervention
Quality teaching
Focused professional development
More resources - more accountability
What lies ahead
- Facilities
- How to fund it?
- Standards?
- Adequate facility?
- Equitable and adequate facility for children
Key laws
Act 35 - Accountability
What lies ahead?
Funding questions
Accountability
Facilities
Essential question -----------
With these new resources that we have, how will the use of this resource improve student achiement in a measurable way over a period of time?
Focus on rigorous course of study in high school that leads to success in college and university.
Focused professional development
Early childhood development
Act 109 curriculum coordination P-16
Act 102 Concurrent enrollment
- Weighted credit
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