Low test scores still plague city schools
Buffalo schools among those cited
By PETER SIMON and MARY PASCIAK
News Staff Reporters
1/11/2007
More than half of Buffalo's public schools were cited by the state Wednesday for poor student test scores, and district officials urged the public to have patience and faith in Superintendent James A. Williams' academic improvement plan. The state Education Department's annual report which is prompted by federal law - named 35 Buffalo schools as subpar, leaving just 24 in good standing.
Locally, the list of low-performing schools is dominated by Buffalo, where nine schools have been cited as "in need of improvement" for at least six years and therefore are in various phases of restructuring.
But nine suburban and rural districts also were cited for different levels of poor performance, along with two Buffalo charter schools.......
Enterprise Charter School and KIPP Sankofa Charter School, both in Buffalo, were listed for the second year and - theoretically at least - have to offer students the opportunity to transfer to higher performing schools in the district.
Story here.
2 comments:
Aint school choice grand.
It seems a bit unfair to pass judgement on the schools progress after its only been open for 2 years.
I will give you one thing. Their enrollment significantly decreased after the first year.
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/repcrd2005/cir/140600860857.pdf
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/repcrd2004/cir/140600860857.pdf
This seems to be the KIPP pattern. For this school, there were 84 students enrolled in the 5th grade in the 2003-2004 school year. The next year, there were only 61 students. That's a 27% drop in enrollment!! What happened to these 23 students???
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