June 12, 2008
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Update your address book
On July 1, 2008 the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools will have a new home. The OAPCS will be moving to 33 N. Third Street, Suite 600; Columbus, Ohio 43215. Update your address book to keep in touch with us.
Interested in having a satellite office in downtown Columbus? The OAPCS may be able to assist you.
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From the Auditor's office
The Ohio Auditor of State's office will present Community School Training to be held in two regional locations:
- Aug. 15, 2008 University of Dayton, Student Union
- Aug. 19, 2008 Kings Island Resort Center
Registration materials and additional information will be shared as soon as they are known to us. The cost of this conference is $25.00 per person. 7.5 CPE hours will be available.
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National Charter Schools Conference
Friday, June 13 is the last chance to register for the National Charter Schools Conference, June 22 - 25, 2008 in New Orleans. Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet your counterparts from other states and share the best of Ohio's charter schools with them!
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Contact Us
Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools
33 N. Third Street,
Suite 600
Office: (614) 744-2266
Fax: (614) 744-2255
www.oapcs.org
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Building Charter School Quality (BCSQ) Project - Phase One Report
The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools has been selected to participate in a four-state, federally-funded “Building Charter School Quality” project designed to improve student achievement by helping charter school operators and sponsors strengthen their performance management practices. States participating include: Ohio; Arizona; Florida; and Colorado. Partners in managing the project include the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and the Colorado League of Charter Schools.
Phase One of the Ohio project consists of a review of Ohio’s rather complex data-management systems, to build knowledge about these systems and to identify barriers to their use in supporting school performance management. The report contains a review of the data management systems (types, uses, purposes, relationships and flow, content, and ownership), Ohio’s current student assessment appliances, perceived barriers and, finally, report recommendations.
Phase Two of the project (summer/fall report schedule) will describe Ohio sponsors’ practices related to school oversight, as well as sponsors’ and schools’ measurement and use of longitudinal growth data. The report will also provide a useful perspective on schools’ use of data to support decisions inside their buildings and insight on what kind of support schools’ leaders need to improve their use of student performance information. Finally, the report will provide a third-party perspective about the state of the relationship between ODE, sponsors, and charter schools with regard to student longitudinal growth, measurement, support, and decision making.
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The state budget corrections bill was passed by both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly, and a conference committee has resolved differences between the two legislative bodies’ versions. Still included in the legislation is a provision that – for the 2007-08 school year funding only – waives hours/days that community schools were closed due to hazardous weather, epidemic, inoperability of school buses or equipment necessary to school operation, damage to a school building, or utility failure, so long as the school was actually open for instruction with students in attendance for at least 920 hours.
The legislation has been sent to Governor Ted Strickland for his consideration. Although the Governor has veto power, there are no indications that he plans to exercise it with respect to the community school calamity day provision. Unfortunately, the legislation did not move through the legislative process quickly enough to provide relief for many of Ohio’s community charter schools.
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It's not too late to submit the form!
 Under Ohio Revised Code (ORC) 3314.36, a community school that serves a majority of its students through a dropout prevention and recovery program may apply for a waiver from closure (for poor academic performance as provided for in H. B. 79 passed by the 126th General Assembly), provided the school meets criteria necessary to qualify for the waiver.
The Office of Community Schools recently contacted schools (and their sponsors) that might consider themselves a dropout prevention/recovery school. As a reminder, or for those of you who were not informed, the deadline to submit the waiver form is Friday, June 13!
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As a member of the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools, your school will receive prominence on the 'find a school' link to be notability featured on the OAPCS web site. Detailed member school listings will include name, mailing address and phone number, grades served, specialization, Web address and photo (if provided).
To ensure accuracy of member school listings, the OAPCS requests that all member schools complete this form and return by June 30, 2008.
In addition to the 'find a school' link, the OAPCS will also include the updated information in its 2008-2009 charter school directory. This directory will feature charter schools and associate members. Non-members of the OAPCS will be listed with less prominence.
All OAPCS members will receive a copy of the 2008-2009 directory at the 2008 Ohio Charter School Conference, which will be held Oct. 14-15, 2008.
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The United States Department of Education (USDoE) provides states the flexibility of implementing an alternate assessment based on modified academic achievement standards for certain students with disabilities. The use of the achievement standards has implications for districts making adequate yearly process (AYP). This provision may be more familiar to you when referred to as the “2% modified assessment.”
In 2007, Ohio, as part of a three state consortium that includes Oregon and Minnesota, received a grant from the Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP) to develop an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards. The consortium is working with American Institutes for Research (AIR) in developing the test.
As part of the development work the consortium has developed a draft Eligibility Guidelines and a Decision Flowchart which will assist educators in determining whether the modified assessment would be appropriate for a particular student with a disability.
This survey is intended to collect data from key stakeholders and will be considered by the consortium in final revisions to these two key documents. There are two documents that you are to provide feedback on in the survey.
The Ohio Department of Education seeks feedback through the completion of this survey by Aug. 08, 2008. Please inform others about this survey so that as many people as possible can provide input. The survey can be completed in about 20 minutes is anonymous.
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