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School Board UpdateOctober 2, 2013 6:30PM
Peachtree City LibraryFloyd Farr Room
With:Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao, Board of Education Member, Fayette CountyWebsite: www.marykaybacallao.jimdo.comE-mail: [email protected]
GEORGIA STATUTES AND CODES § 20-2-49 - Standards for local board of education members
The General Assembly finds that local boards of education play a critical role in setting the policies that lead to the operation and success of local school systems. School board members hold special roles as trustees of public funds, including local, state, and federal funds, while they focus on the singular objective of ensuring each student in the local school system receives a quality basic education. Board duties require specialized skills and training in the performance of vision setting, policy making, approving multimillion dollar budgets,
and hiring a qualified superintendent. The motivation to serve as a member of a local board of education should be the improvement of schools and academic achievement of all students. Service
on a local board of education is important citizen service. Given the specialized nature and unique role of membership on a local board of education, this elected office should be characterized and treated differently from other elected offices where the primary duty is independently to represent constituent views. Local board of education members should abide by a code of conduct and conflict of interest policy modeled for their unique roles and responsibilities. And although there are many measures of the
success of a local board of education, one is clearly essential: maintaining accreditation and the opportunities it allows the school system's students.
http://statutes.laws.com/georgia/title-20/chapter-2/article-3/20-2-49#sthash.Wzmtl0pM.dpuf
GEORGIA STATUTES AND CODES § 20-2-140 - State Board of Education to establish competencies and
uniformly sequenced core curriculum
The State Board of Education shall establish competencies that each student is expected to master prior to completion of the student's public school education. The state board shall also establish competencies for which each student should be provided opportunities, at the discretion of the student and the student's parents, to master. Based upon these foregoing competencies,
the state board shall adopt a uniformly sequenced core curriculum for grades kindergarten through 12. Each local unit of administration
shall include this uniformly sequenced core curriculum as the basis for its own curriculum, although each local unit may expand and
enrich this curriculum to the extent it deems necessary and appropriate for its students and communities.
http://statutes.laws.com/georgia/title-20/chapter-2/article-6/part-2/20-2-140#sthash.cksuXN2r.dpuf
Elected officials, their constituents and parents are by passed.
Appointed State School Board members make the decisions about
curriculum.
How should school governance work?
Let’s look at some ancient principles, used by the founding fathers.
Accurate Weights and Measures
• The CCRPI is not an accurate measure.According to the CCRPI, students with limited English proficiency, students who are economically disadvantaged and special education students are better prepared for college and careers than other students. Why? Those students generate more points than other students, even with the same test scores. That is the way the CCRPI bonus and challenge points work at the school level. And who out there thinks the CCRPI is a valid and reliable score? What was it intended to measure, college and career readiness? The name needs to be changed. Just because it intends to measure college and career readiness, does not make it so.
Accurate Measures
• Testing, not assessment• What kind of tests do we need?• Formative placement tests so we know where
to start.• End of the year tests so we can see how much
we have learned.
Tests to determine…
• End of School Year Reading Level• End of School Year Math Level• End of School Year Writing/Grammar Level
Truth in Testing… equal opportunity not equal educational results.
CC Update
• GPPF Report cites Achieve and the Fordham Foundation
• Language Arts- 81% Correlation, 50% change• Math- 90% correlation, 1-2 year change• Mobility: Integrated vs. Traditional CC Math• Fayette County Math Standards- What
standards have been added? Money related standards based on weaknesses of the former GPS standards from 2004.
Broad
CFR sponsored task force
Achieve
US DOE
CCSSO Pearson
Sir Michael Barber CEO
McKinsey & Co.
College Board
ACT
In-Bloom Wireless
Generation
Parent Trigger
Americas Promise Alliance
NCEENGA
Gates
PARCC
Walton
FEE J. Bush
Student Achieve-
ment Partners
Americas Choice
Common Core
US Dept of
Defense
Connections Academy
Colin Powell
Lou Gerstner
Big Data
FUSE
TFA
LuminaState FarmWaltonBoeingGENationwide
David Coleman
Former
Consultant
Pres
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Lou Gerstner
Bob Wise
FORM
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IREC
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CO-SPONSORED CCSS INITIATIVE
EDUCATIONAL REFORM &NATL. SECURITY REPORT
Condi Rice
Lou Gerstner
Co-Founder
Partner to Manage PARCCSC
SBAC After 2014
Lumina
Joanne Weiss
Director RTTT
Chester Finn
BroadMcKinsey
Advisors for 2009 DOE Blue Print
Alma Powell
Chair
PearsonWalmartLuminaBoeingLockHeedFord
Funders
Rupert Murdoc
h &Joel
Klein
SpellingGene
Wilhoit (CCSSO)
Fordham
Funds
Sponsored ALEC Bill
State Farm
Acquired
Acquire
d
For Profit
Spin Off
From NCEE
Sir Michael Barber
Former Consultant
Creator
Chai
r
Boar
d
State Farm
Supports Natl Curriculum
CCSSBODCo-Chair
Petersmyer Co-Chair
McKinsey Consultant
Helped
Develop
Supp
orts
FUSE
A Bo
ard
Mem
ber
Empl
oyed
by
Gat
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Florida? Contract toManage DataAfter 2015
Marc Tucker
Chris Minnich
Director Former
Employee
CCSSO
Klein Co-Sponsored
The CFR Paper
Supports CCSS
Managed
Data Collection for PARCC
Data Collection for PA
RCC
Facilitated by CCSSO (Corporate Partn
er)
Developed Standards
American Enterprise
Inst.Rick Hess
signs report
Revenaugh was co-chair of ALEC
Education Committee
Question and Answer
Materials can be downloaded from:www.MaryKayBacallao.Jimdo.com