Sunday, June 5, 2011

Over/Under

Which IPS schools do you think will get taken over when all is said and done and which ones will avoid intervention? Place your bets.

48 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 05, 2011

    I heard BRHS and Manual.

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  2. AnonymousJune 05, 2011

    I heard Manual, but BRHS was saved due to the excellent leadership, followed by excellent teachers followed by excellent students....

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  3. AnonymousJune 05, 2011

    Arlington and Manual. BRHS will make gains due to the number of above average students they have which will show in the test results.

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  4. AnonymousJune 05, 2011

    Five Schools. Ripple and Donnan will be ok

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  5. AnonymousJune 05, 2011

    Yup Ripple will be safe, never mind what Davis did to kids, she promised kids the moon, kept all sorts of kids with false promises, so she could keep her numbers up, and then booted them out at the end of the first semester.

    Yet another example of kids getting the short shift to benefit an institution, an institution that is suppose to be there to benefit kids. Boy is this situation perverted.

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  6. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    What boggles my mind is that Ripple has the opportunity to select its students, yet it struggles to hit meaningful performance targets. It would seem too easy that if I were selecting my students I would choose the students with the optimal chance at success.

    Oh well.

    In any case, I predict that a few schools may get a reprieve until more operators are vetted. There will be interventions until the district can come up with solutions that make a difference in the lives of the students. It would seem that the people on this blog might get together and form their own groups to take over schools. You wouldn't have to fear that your job was in jeopardy if you controlled the school yourselves. Don't talk about it . . . be about it. Where is the plan. Let's together IPS teachers (not administrators), and let's takeover a failing school and show those bastards on Walnut St. and at the Statehouse how it is done!

    Or maybe complaining is all we are prepared to do?

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  7. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    To the above poster...

    YES! Love it!

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  8. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    No schools will be taken over. The state has no real plan or idea on how to do it, and if the schools fail under the watch, who will Dr. Bennett and the State of Indiana have to blame?

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  9. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    I believe there will be some school taken over. Dr. Bennett has talked so much that someone, if not two, will begin the process of being watched and taken over.

    I think it will be Northwest and/or Arlington given the performance numbers.

    The sad part is there are staff coming in because of the turnaround proceedures who are coming from schools that have been making some progress. They will be caught in the process.

    Northwest, also has the middle school moving in this year, making it a very transitional year that will be hard to make numbers. The school will not have enough time to adjust, calm, and meet performance standards with that kind of flux going on. It is as if Dr. White and the downtown administration is saying, "Go ahead! We dare you! This school is ripe!" and it will be.

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  10. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    RE-POSTED:"It would seem that the people on this blog might get together and form their own groups to take over schools. You wouldn't have to fear that your job was in jeopardy if you controlled the school yourselves. Don't talk about it . . . be about it. Where is the plan."

    LETS START HERE.. LETS START NOW...
    WE ARE STATE LICENSED PROFESSIONALS. WE ARE IN EDUCATION BECAUSE WE CARE. COME ON RIFTED TEACHERS, WE NEED A PLAN. FORMS, DOCUMENTATIONS, LETS START BY GETTING A UNIVERSITY TO SPONSOR A CHARTER SCHOOL. IT TAKES A YEAR TO GET THINGS IN THE WORKS... WE CAN DO THIS: NO LONGER CAN WE LIVE IN FEAR OF LOOSING OUR JOBS... LET SHOW THESE DISTRICTS THAT WE TRULY CARE ABOUT THE STUDENTS... AND WISH THEY HAD NEVER GO AGAINST US... WE CAN DO THIS... LETS WORK UNTIL WE ARE READY TO RETIRE... NOT UNTIL SOME DISTRICTS TOSSED US OUT...

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  11. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    Oh. My. God.

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  12. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    I only hope the blogger who is yelling isn't an educator. Where's the grammar police when you need them?

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  13. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    Too true.

    LOOSE and LOSE
    are two different words with two different meanings.

    And a rift is a separation, a clear space or interval.

    Not to be confused with raft, something to float upon in the pool.

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  14. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    And RIF is an acronym for reduction in force. There is no "T" in RIF.

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  15. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    LETS is a present-tense verb (She lets out her dog every morning.)*****4 violations!
    Let can be a present- or past- tense verb (Please let the dog back in. or Fred let the dog in after breakfast.)

    Correct: Let's is a contraction for let us.


    Toss is present-tense, tossed is past-tense.

    I can't translate "AND WISH THEY HAD NEVER GO AGAINST US". It's simply gibberish.

    Signed,

    The Grammar Police, Unit 3

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  16. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    I can only hope that Arlington is taken over just so it can be shown that Bennetts's policies are completely in error and will fail. A good disaster there would be the best way to show him to be the fool that he is.

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  17. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    I remember thinking when the community high school model was introduced that these schools ultimately would become nothing more than Rikers Island type institutions.

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  18. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    We must not forget who is responsible for Arlington Community High School having a high turnover of Principals and Teachers. Dr. White allowed the injustice to happen and got paid in the possess. I remember working at Arlington the day Dr. White showed up to give a speech and was booed by the students because of their frustrations about the changes. Less than a month later Greg Allen was removed as Principal. I won't use the Director's name but the attached article is about a child of the Director. The apple does not fall too far from the tree. It is my opinion she believes since her children are failures, all kids should be failures. The students, school district, and community will continue feeling the pain created by one person.

    http://www.wthr.com/story/9225770/man-suspected-in-attempted-murder-suicide-dies?redirected=true

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  19. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    Greg Allen should never have been placed at Arlington in the first place. He lost a grievance about changing grades on senior's final English exams. In any other district in the nation this would have merited termination, not another chance. Yet again we see the district being run to benefit the mafias, not the students.

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  20. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    I be wroking for KIPP and have a free cel phone, I tweet, and do be talking to the gals in my class, they like me. They talking about me done going to BRHS to teach english, and creative written epress.

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  21. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    Read the article in today New York times about the charter schools the Turks are running in Texas with public monies...this is truly scarely.

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  22. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/education/07charter.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=turkish%20charter%20schools&st=cse

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  23. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    How did Marshall escape the ax this year? Are things there going well? Good test scores? I heard that over half the faculty aren't returning this year. Anyone want to speculate why?

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  24. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    Is the post with WTHR link about Prudence Bridgwater? If so, thanks for the information. If your post is to provide awareness, dig deeper and you will find out more about why every community high school is going to be taken over.

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  25. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    "I heard Manual, but BRHS was saved due to the excellent leadership,"

    Better get your hearing checked...LOL

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  26. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    "I heard that over half the faculty aren't returning this year. Anyone want to speculate why?"

    No speculation here. One word; micromanagement

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  27. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    What happened to Angie Peterson's job at Marshall? She was the Athletic Director, but now she's gone. Gone where and why? Did she and Sullivan butt heads?

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  28. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    "Read the article in today New York times about the charter schools the Turks are running in Texas with public monies...this is truly scarely."

    Unbelievable...corporate America can't fix Wall Street or health care. Can't imagine them screwing with public education.

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  29. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    Ballard seeks control of 7 failing IPS schools

    Mayor Greg Ballard has asked to take charge of efforts to turn around up to seven Indianapolis Public Schools that are facing state takeover.

    In a speech to the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee this morning, Ballard cited state law that allows mayors to petition the state board to take control of schools that have been on probation for low test scores for six consecutive years.

    Ballard said the schools would be added to a portfolio of charter schools his office oversees and that he would apply "charter like" solutions to them. He pitched his plan as a middle road between mayoral takeover of the entire school district, which has been pushed by some community and business leaders, and state control of local schools.

    "I believe our immediate focus should be on the successful turnaround of the schools being taken over by the state," he said. "Once we successfully turn around these schools, then we can tackle the larger issue of IPS as a whole."

    State board members and Superintendent for Public Instruction Tony Bennett are holding meetings this month to gather public input at each of the seven Indianapolis schools -- six high schools and a middle school -- that could reach their sixth year of probation when state test scores are released later this summer.

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  30. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    Ballard seeks control of 7 failing IPS schools

    http://www.indystar.com/article/20110608/NEWS05/106080376/1001/NEWS

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  31. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    This morning on Channel 13 Dr. Bennett said that he believes some of these schools have met criteria and scores to avoid takeover.

    One thought crossed my mind earlier today when thinking about that statement. That is that half the staff that caused the increase have now been re-assigned to other schools per turnaround school policies.

    So, in effect the school will once again not be on top of things. It will not be a true showing of the schools because they will have to settle in the new teachers to the way things are done in their buildings.

    Unless a school that meets criteria can pull back those they really did not want to send packing (or just plain get all the staff back that caused the improvement).

    Sure wish I could see more than four words at a time on this phone. Want to check before the gram and spelling police show up. Oh, well.

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  32. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    It's too bad the Star won't print the article from the NYTimes in their paper. They are too chicken, but Indiana does need to hear about this charter stuff.

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  33. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    @ Indiana does need to hear about this charter stuff.

    Why? Who is dumb enough to make the logical leap that a bad charter school in New York means that charter schools in Indiana are worrisome? Should we likewise judge the quality of all traditional public schools based the quality of the worst and most corrupt districts?

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  34. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    You obviously did not even look at the NYT article. It is not about a bad charter in New York. Please, read the article before you criticize the intent of the people who posted.

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  35. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    After all that fuss about a mosque at ground zero there is not a peep about Muslim and foreign owned companies (Turkish/Gulen Islam) moving in, taking public funds, then hiring new employees from Turkey, I simply don't understand, you think the same people who were out raising a ruckus about the mosque would be out in force.

    What will be next? A charter affiliated with the Klan? Druids? Or perhaps Barnes will start her own "Pimp daddy school", all with public funds.

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  36. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    It's because people don't know. I certainly haven't seen anything on the news. As it should be.

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  37. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    And it's not about New York...it's about Texas where all of "leave no child behind" started.

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  38. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    Interesting article

    http://www.parentdish.com/2011/06/08/more-attention-paid-to-middle-class-k/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl2%7Csec3_lnk1%7C215464

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  39. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    How many times have we heard these words?

    White said he believes the district can turn the schools around in three to five years.

    "We have some schools that really have not performed on that state test like we think that they should," he said. "We think that we have a plan that can get those schools turned around."

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  40. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    How does all this new salary legislation affect us, in the fact that we have a contract that expired in June of 2010?

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  41. AnonymousJune 08, 2011

    White said he believes the district can turn the schools around in three to five years.

    "We have some schools that really have not performed on that state test like we think that they should," he said. "We think that we have a plan that can get those schools turned around."

    Did his nose grow when he said this, it is the same thing he has been saying for the last six years and nothing he has done has been anything but smoke and mirrors; statistical manipulations. the only thing he has been successful at is demoralizing and torturing the teachers, and the effect of this scorch and burn philosophy has hurt the student and schools.

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  42. AnonymousJune 09, 2011

    How do you energize and renew public education and the teaching profession without demoralizing and torturing the teachers? Is reform itself offensive to teachers, or is there a way to make teachers more effective without demoralizing them? Along those same lines, how do we get more buy-in from students and parents without demoralizing THEM?

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  43. AnonymousJune 09, 2011

    White told us, in his back-to-school assembly his first year as superintendent, that he would turn IPS in to a nationally recognized school district by 2010. It's nationally recognized, alright...for it's failures!!! How does this man justify his position and his salary??? How does he think that anyone can have "buy-in" to any plans that he proposes???

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  44. AnonymousJune 09, 2011

    How do you energize and renew public education and the teaching profession without demoralizing and torturing the teachers? Is reform itself offensive to teachers, or is there a way to make teachers more effective without demoralizing them? Along those same lines, how do we get more buy-in from students and parents without demoralizing THEM?

    You start by getting buy in from the teachers, ask them what is most effective, ask them what works, ask them for ideas. Look at the research and see what is evidence based best practices, then train the teacher to use those strategies. I still see teachers using teaching techniques described in a paper about the pedagogy of poverty exclusively
    https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/docs/pdf/qt_haberman.pdf

    There is plenty of research on what works and what doesn't work...we just ignore most of it. This extends to what we do with adults as well. Take a look at the research on motivation, a major issue with students and teachers.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

    We need a new superintendent who is a visionary and has an open mindset. We need a new school board that values growth and authentic educational experiences rather than test scores.

    Just wait until we start using Common Core standards and national norm based testing, I think we will be in for a real surprise about how low our students (all students in Indiana, not just IPS) are compared to the rest of the country.

    What to do to foster improvement, how about hiring someone like Marzano to do PD for the system, and help the schools improve. http://www.marzanoresearch.com/site/ It would be a major expense and would prevent IPS officials from funneling money to former employees, friends and family for really poor professional development. Anyone who attended last years PD on deconstructing Disney Princess at the Forest Manner Professional development center knows that was a million dollar waste of money...who the heck was the presenter's fairy godmother?

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  45. AnonymousJune 09, 2011

    Gulan schools are already here in Indianapolis: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110401/BLOGS13/110409959
    Chartered through Ball State.

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  46. AnonymousJune 10, 2011

    You are right, they are at the Indiana Math and Science Academy, where SERPIL CINAR, EMRULLAH KIYDAL,TOLGA MISIRLI, SERVET OKSUZ, ORHAN UFAK, and MEHMET UYLUKCU all teach. They make up 21 percent of the faculty of the school and all attended foreign schools. And their superintendent is Dr Fatih Unlu. I cannot say for certain where all these teachers came from but since one of them teaches Turkish I suspect Turkey may be the country of origin.

    We watched as foreign auto manufacturers stepped in and took over the US car market, now it is happening with schools....

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  47. AnonymousJune 10, 2011

    http://compass.doe.in.gov/Dashboard.aspx?view=CORP&val=9785&desc=Indiana+Math+and+Science+Academy

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  48. AnonymousJune 10, 2011

    Wow, look how well they're doing with poor minority kids compared to IPS. I don't care what religion they belong to if they're succeeding with kids. I'd rather schools turn kids into Muslims than turn kids into prison inmates.

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