July 31st from Dispatch Statehouse Blog - kasich-reacts
July 31sth from the Toledo Blade - Ex-TPS-chief-named-to-lead-Sandusky-system-1-year
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
July 31st, 2012
July 30th from the Toledo Blade - 2012-07-30 Former-TPS-superintendent-to-lead-Sandusky-schools
July 31st from Dispatch Statehouse Blog - kasich-reacts
July 31sth from the Toledo Blade - Ex-TPS-chief-named-to-lead-Sandusky-system-1-year
July 31st from Dispatch Statehouse Blog - kasich-reacts
July 31sth from the Toledo Blade - Ex-TPS-chief-named-to-lead-Sandusky-system-1-year
Sunday, July 29, 2012
July 29th, 2012
Sunday front page again!
July 29th - Columbus Dispatch - schools-timing-suspect
July 29th - Columbus Dispatch - schools-timing-suspect
July 29th - Columbus Dispatch - suburbs-say-they-dont-rig-attendance-data
July 29th - Columbus Dispatch Editorial - find-the-truth
July 29th - Letter to Editor
Saturday, July 28, 2012
July 28th, 2012
July 28th - Columbus Dispatch - Yost warns do not interfere with investigation
The Toledo Blade - TPS-state-on-opposite-sides-of-data-issue
Friday, July 27, 2012
July 27th, 2012
July 27th - The Columbus Dispatch - state-will-investigate-all-school-attendance-records
July 27th - The Columbus Dispatch - district-auditor-balks-at-idea-of-deadlines
July 27th - The Toledo Blade - Test-score-probe-goes-statewide
TPS Superintendent sends a letter to ODE
The Auditor of Ohio is unhappy with ODE
July 26th, 2012
July 26th - Columbus Dispatch - auditors-memo-reveals-pressure-to-end-school-official-probe
Well, IMHO time for Carole Perkins and Gene Harris to resign, or be forced out.
July 26th - Columbus Dispatch - districts-officials-may-face-criminal-charges
Ok Stan Heffner, you idiot, what CRIME was committed? And you think ODE has no culpability in this issue? ODE puts out a poorly written set of submission rules, the the Ohio oversight agency for education decides that the School Report Cards will be self regulated by the reporting districts. Sheesh! Either treat the data submitted by schools with SOME kind of reasonability checks, or stop trying to run the districts by your hit and miss oversight based on newspaper reporting!
and an update
July 26th - The Toledo Blade - Toledo-Public-Schools-emails-tell-of-desire-to-raise-scores
July 26th - The Toledo Blade editotrial - Uncooking-the-books
July 23rd, 2012
July 23rd - The Toledo Blade! - The Toledo Blade Records-altered-to-lift-state-test-scores
I read the article yesterday. What bothers me is that they think they had rule interpretation that allowed the practice. CCS never used a withdraw type that indicated "Withdrawn Due to Truancy", but I wonder if Toledo did. I don't know how the ODE classifies that type of withdraw, but I bet it would count as a DROP OUT.
The big difference between CCS and Toledo is intent. Did TPS have a policy in place, and a properly setup withdraw type, to utilize the "Withdrawn Due to Truancy"? Did they then follow the policy consistently?
Was there ever any discussion at CCS that would have added a withdraw type of "Withdrawn Due to Truancy"? I know that there was no withdraw type for "Withdrawn Due to Truancy" prior to my retirement in January 2012.
July 22nd, 2012
July 22 - 2.8-million-school-absences-erased
July 22 - Columbus Dispatch Sunday Paper, front page! Bill Bush called me July 18 to check on some numbers he was seeing in the records request he got from CCS. The records were data I pulled for an investigation that Carolyn Smith (CCS Internal Auditor) was trying to put together.
My Facebook post on July 22
June 15th, 2012
Well, here is my 15 minutes of infamy!
Oh Boy!
It all started for me on Thursday June 14th, when Jennifer Smith-Richards called me about 10:30am - she remembered me from when I did the data pulls for the Dispatch. She asked if I knew anything about the way Steve Tankovitch (she used his name!) was altering data.
My Facebook posts on June 15
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