The next five years will be challenging for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district as it struggles to achieve lofty goals set by the state.
During the 2011-2012 school year, the school district had to meet 34 proficiency goals. Last year, under the state’s new Common Core Standards, the district had to meet 947 goals.
The district did not meet 27 performance goals and 74 percent of those failed goals were from the economically disadvantaged group.
Diane Villwock, executive director of testing and program evaluation for the district, presented the preliminary data about the school’s performance results during the district’s board of education meeting Monday.
Villwock said the district would have to have extraordinary growth in its proficiency numbers for the district to meet its goals laid out by the state by the year 2018.
For example, Villwock said the district would need to improve at a rate that is 35 percent faster than it ever has for those groups with the lowest performance on the math end of grade tests last year.
Board member James Barrett said he would like to see the proficiency data broken out for individual students so the district could ensure each student grows every year.
“If we look at proficiency, we don’t get the growth mindset,” Barrett said. “I think we have to lead with growth measures for individual students because that’s what we believe in.”
Notable:
The board approved a resolution supporting any potential legislation from the N.C. General Assembly that allows school districts to decide if class rank will be included on transcripts.
Quotable:
“The mandarin dual language is worried about being ganged up on,” Barrett said after the district scheduled a meeting to hear from parents with kids in crowded schools. “So facilitation and how this is being handled is critical.”
The district will hold an information session for parents to give feedback on the districts options for alleviating crowding at Glenwood Elementary on Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. at East Chapel Hill High School.
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