{"id":158513,"date":"2022-09-30T03:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=158513"},"modified":"2022-09-30T03:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T08:54:32","slug":"vw-bd-hears-info-on-state-report-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/09\/30\/vw-bd-hears-info-on-state-report-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Bd. hears info on state report cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing is certain about the Ohio Department of Education\u2019s annual school report cards \u2013 there is very little, if any consistency from year-to-year. Each year, there are changes to such things as assessment factors, the state\u2019s grading scale for each of Ohio\u2019s public school districts, and the latest report cards are no different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report cards for the 2021-2022 school year were released in mid-September and perhaps the biggest noticeable difference from previous years was a new ratings scale of 1-5 stars in each of five different categories, with five stars being the highest. It replaced the old A-F scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris Covey talks about data recorded on the latest school report card. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert City Schools earned five stars in the graduation category, four stars for gap closing and three stars for achievement, progress and early literacy. However, no overall rating was given for the previous school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest report card was broken down and discussed during Wednesday\u2019s meeting of the Van Wert school board. Superintendent Mark Bagley and Chris Covey, Director of Curriculum, led the discussion and gave a brief overview of the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur teachers take a lot of pride in this and when you get graded by a star or a letter grade, it\u2019s always personal,\u201d Bagley said. \u201cWe feel overall that we\u2019ve met expectations but we\u2019re always looking to learn from the data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe two areas that we feel are the most proud are the gap closing, which means we\u2019re working hard with every single child in our district, and then the progress showing that we are making steady growth,\u201d Covey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added there are some reporting methods the district needs to change that he believes will help immediately, especially in the literacy category, which he termed \u201cextremely confusing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one area in particular that we think we\u2019re knocking it out of the park,\u201d Covey explained. \u201cWe didn\u2019t feel the indicator said where we know we are and that\u2019s where we came up with some reporting things that we need to change to better show what it is we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

He added that he worries that the report cards focus on things such as diplomas with honors, ACT scores, College Credit-Plus and A.P. scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c(Those) are all important, but I don\u2019t know that those are necessarily indicators of success for all students, not even close,\u201d Covey stated. \u201cThose are a lot to do with kids who are going to go to college and as we know, not all of our population should consider that for an option.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the discussion, Covey used the \u201csee, think and wonder\u201d protocol with the board and asked for their immediate thoughts on what they saw on the report card, which spurred comments about how to exceed expectations and what to focus on in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A direct link to Van Wert\u2019s state report cards can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor One thing is certain about the Ohio Department of Education\u2019s annual school report cards \u2013 there is very little, if any consistency from year-to-year. Each year, there are changes to such things as assessment factors, the state\u2019s grading scale for each of Ohio\u2019s public school districts, and the latest report cards are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:02:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158523,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158513\/revisions\/158523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}