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Accountability, Data and Test Scores 2019

October 3, 2019 Center for Education Policy + Practice

2019 MCAS reports and school/district accountability reports are here! If you require assistance in understanding, we have the focused/targeted support for you. The school and

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2018 Teacher Evaluation Data

July 2, 2019 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Surprise! Latest data shows even more Massachusetts teachers are rated Proficient and Exemplary. The 2017-18 educator evaluation data continue to show that almost all Massachusetts

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PDPs & IPDPs & Signatures, oh my!

March 21, 2019 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Just how many signatures are required to get a licensed renewed? And how many PDPs again? Let’s take a quick look at the required signatures

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Teacher Turnover in DESE-Involved Schools #DataVizDay

March 7, 2019 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Teacher turnover is the percent of teachers who leave a school and who are replaced by a different teacher by the next school year. Underperforming

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Teacher Diversity in Schools #DataVizDay

February 6, 2019 Center for Education Policy + Practice
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Teacher & Student Diversity in Massachusetts #DataVizDay

January 30, 2019 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Source: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The DESE reports student and staffing data in seven racial-ethnic categories: African American, Asian, Hispanic, Native American,

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School Library Staffing #DataVizDay

December 11, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Over ten years, the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) Librarian/Media Services directors (as reported to DESE by districts) has fallen from 833 in 2007/08 to

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2018 Household Income and School Rankings #DataVizDay

November 27, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

  Back in September, we here at The Policy Minute shared with you the 2016 median household incomes of schools in the highest and lowest

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New (and old) Rankings #DataVizDay

November 15, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

  In Fall 2018, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education  (DESE) announced the first accountability designations based on the new system required under

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“Turnaround” Plans & School Rankings #DataVizDay

November 6, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

  Since 2010, 65 schools have been designated as “underperforming.” After at least three years of implementing a “turnaround plan”, a school is eligible to

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Do Turnaround Schools actually Turn Around? #DataVizDay

November 1, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has been identifying “underperforming”  (formerly Level Four) and “chronically underperforming”  (formerly Level Five) schools since 2010. Sixty-five

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Teacher Turnover in “Broad/Comprehensive Support” Schools #DataVizDay

October 23, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

The schools may need help, but what happens to the teachers? The teacher turnover rate represents the percentage of teachers who were working at the

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Real Examples – Accountability #DataVizDay

October 16, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

How can five students sink the ranking for an entire school? Our Real School is in the 59th percentile of all schools, met 75 percent

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Schools Requiring Support by the Numbers #DataVizDay

October 11, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

The 2018 district accountability system identified 233 Massachusetts public schools as falling into the category of “Requiring Focused/Targeted Support.” Schools may be labeled as “Requiring

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Assistance and Intervention Designations (Not Levels!) -Accountability 2018 #DataVizDay

October 2, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Requiring Assistance or Intervention Designations The 2018 school accountability designations are based on the new system created to meet requirements of both ESSA and Massachusetts

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Educator Evaluation #DataVizDay

September 25, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice
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School Rankings + Household Income #DataVizDay

September 11, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice
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Public Funding for Higher Education #DataVizDay

September 4, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice
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State Aid for Public Schools #DataVizDay

August 28, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice
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School Poverty & Accountability Levels #DataVizDay

August 21, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice
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#DataVizDay is Coming!

August 18, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

The Policy Minute is beyond excited to announce the launch of our own #DataVizDay! Every Tuesday we will share an education data visualization from our

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