First, we hope to kick-start a national conversation about educational productivity. Second, we want to identify districts that generate higher-than-average achievement per dollar spent, demonstrate how productivity varies widely within states, and encourage efforts to study highly productive districts. Third—and most important—we want to encourage states and districts to embrace approaches that make it easier to create and sustain educational efficiencies.
The study uses three different rubrics to rate districts. On the study's interactive site, we can see that our district does well on all three measures. The first measure, Basic Return on Investment (ROI), rates school districts on how much academic achievement they get for each dollar spent relative to other districts in their state. Green represents good in the charts below. The green dot with the black circle around it in the "best" section of the chart is us.
The second measure, adjusted return on investment, uses a different form of analysis to be more sensitive to spending differences within states. Once again the green dot with the black circle is our system.
The third measure, Predicted Efficiency rating measures whether a district’s achievement is higher or lower than would be predicted after accounting for its per-pupil spending and concentrations of low-income, non-Englishspeaking, and special education students. Our rating can again be found in the best section of the chart.
As can be seen by this study, our school system once again has a high rating when compared to other systems in the state and nation.
6 comments:
We rock! This definitely belongs in the newspaper, newsletter, website...can we do a robocall? I love good news.
I am impressed with us. I shared with my staff. I think this needs to accompany our bond information about our fiscal responsibility. Plaster this on Facebook. It can be part of the new content that is needed to keep the facebook page "fresh".
This shows what an amazing school district Tahoma is! It's great to see how well our money is spent and the impact that it's having. Bravo!
This would be a big reason why many of us chose to work and raise our own families here. My husband I moved to Maple Valley because of Tahoma. It wasn't until several years later that I joined the TSD family and couldn't be more proud to be a parent and teacher here. Tahoma is one of a kind!
This should be rained down in flyers from helicopters, ru nin al lthe little local papers and posted EVERYWHERE, with a something underneath saying, "Help us keep this level of education, by saying yes to our LEVY!"
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