October 7, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Since 2005, New Orleans has improved more than any other school district in Louisiana. District Performance Highlights Educate Now! calculates that the combined DPS for New Orleans should be around 82.4. This means that New Orleans has grown a stunning 25.5 points – 49% – between 2005 and 2011! #1 in Growth Since 2005 District Performance [...]
September 6, 2011 – 12:23 pm
What are End of Course Tests (EOCs)? Louisiana is phasing out the Graduation Exit Exam (GEE) and replacing it with specific End of Course tests, or EOCs. There are six EOC exams. Beginning with the freshman class of 2010-11, students must pass at least three of the tests to graduate: English II or English III [...]
New Orleans students are closing the achievement gap! Some of the most persistent achievement gaps in New Orleans – between black and white, the poor and the well-off, those with and without special needs – are shrinking, and at a pace that is much faster than ever before. This year, for the first time since [...]
Voucher Program Faltering: Accountability and Performance Standards Needed Educate Now! analyzed student test scores from voucher schools and compared them to New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) schools. We found that for the second year in a row, students participating in the voucher program performed worse than students in the RSD! STUDENT PERFORMANCE Comparing 3rd, [...]
In 2010, Educate Now! convened a Task Force to consider long-term governance alternatives for New Orleans public schools. In a series of meetings over several months, the members of the Task Force worked on how best to restore local control of public education without imperiling the considerable academic progress since 2005. The Task Force determined [...]
December 30, 2010 – 10:36 am
Top 5 Stories of 2010 1. New Orleans public school students (RSD+OPSB) ranked #1 in the state for improved student achievement – both for the year and for the 2005-10 period! 2. FEMA announces a $1.8 billion settlement for rebuilding and repairing New Orleans school facilities. FEMA Awards $1.8 Billion to New Orleans Schools for [...]
October 7, 2010 – 3:47 pm
New Orleans Schools Show Great Improvement The Louisiana Department of Education has just released the 2010 School Performance Scores (SPS) and District Performance Scores (DPS). So, how did New Orleans schools do in 2010? 1. The percentage of failing schools continues to decline.
October 5, 2010 – 12:34 am
Fact: For many schools, only the name is the same. Comparing the performance of individual New Orleans public schools with the same name pre- and post-Katrina is not a valid analysis. Why? We shuffled the deck. Schools with the same name may: be in a different location have different grade configurations no longer serve the [...]
October 4, 2010 – 9:43 am
Fact: Since the state takeover, student improvement has more than doubled! Educate Now! compared the percent of students Basic or above in math and English on the 4th and 8th grade LEAP and the 10th grade GEE tests for 2000, 2005 and 2010.* (For other grades the state changed the tests, so we can’t compare [...]
October 1, 2010 – 9:14 am
Fact: Schools are doing significantly better than before the storm. Let’s compare pre-Katrina spring 2005 to now – fall 2010:
