Download or read book Building Teacher Quality in the Kansas City Missouri School District Executive Summary written by National Council on Teacher Quality and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the policies and practices shaping teacher quality in the Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD). It is part of a series of analyses by the National Council on Teacher Quality in school districts across the nation. Framing this analysis are five policy goals for improving teacher quality: 1. Staffing: Teacher assignment is based on the mutual consent of principals and teachers, with district policies facilitating the access of schools to top teacher talent. 2. Work culture: Policies encourage a professional and collaborative culture, including a work schedule that allows for sufficient planning time. 3. Evaluations: Teachers' performance evaluations play a critical role in advancing teacher effectiveness. 4. Tenure: Tenure is a meaningful milestone in a teacher's career and advances the district's goal of building a corps of effective teachers. 5. Compensation: Compensation is strategically targeted to attract and reward high quality teachers, especially those in hard-to-staff positions. For this analysis we explored the policies (found in both the collective bargaining agreement and state law) that shape teacher quality. We collected personnel data from the district and met with teachers, principals, union leaders and district administrators to get a better understanding of how these policies play out in practice. We also compared the policies in KCMSD with those of surrounding districts and the 100-plus districts found in the NCTQ's TR3 database. Lastly, we laid out a blueprint of suggested improvements and highlighted possible solutions that have been successful elsewhere. This is the executive summary of this report. The full report is SSRN abstract No. 1746954, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1746954.
Download or read book Building Teacher Quality in the Kansas City Missouri School District written by Aileen Corso and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the policies and practices shaping teacher quality in the Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD). It is part of a series of analyses by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) in school districts across the nation. Framing this analysis are five policy goals for improving teacher quality: (1) Staffing. Teacher assignment is based on the mutual consent of principals and teachers, with district policies facilitating the access of schools to top teacher talent; (2) Work culture. Policies encourage a professional and collaborative culture, including a work schedule that allows for sufficient planning time; (3) Evaluations. Teachers' performance evaluations play a critical role in advancing teacher effectiveness; (4) Tenure. Tenure is a meaningful milestone in a teacher's career and advances the district's goal of building a corps of effective teachers; and (5) Compensation. Compensation is strategically targeted to attract and reward high quality teachers, especially those in hard-to-staff positions. For this analysis the authors explored the policies (found in both the collective bargaining agreement and state law) that shape teacher quality. They collected personnel data from the district and met with teachers, principals, union leaders and district administrators to get a better understanding of how these policies play out in practice. They also compared the policies in KCMSD with those of surrounding districts and the 100-plus districts found in the NCTQ's TR[3] database, www.nctq.org/tr3. Lastly, they laid out a blueprint of suggested improvements and highlighted possible solutions that have been successful elsewhere. Many of the recommendations in this document require changes in state law or in contract language. Since collective bargaining is not mandatory in the state of Missouri, the teachers' contract should not be seen as an obstacle to reform. Most of their recommendations simply require that the district make significant improvements to how it conducts its daily business. Though all school districts struggle with efficiency, the degree to which Kansas City struggles is cause for concern. The district's poor record-keeping and lack of data systems were alarming. (Contains 21 figures and 24 footnotes.) [This project was done in partnership with the Urban League of Greater Kansas City and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.].
Download or read book Building Teacher Quality in the Kansas City Missouri School District Full Report written by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the policies and practices shaping teacher quality in the Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD). It is part of a series of analyses by the National Council on Teacher Quality in school districts across the nation. Framing this analysis are five policy goals for improving teacher quality: 1. Staffing. Teacher assignment is based on the mutual consent of principals and teachers, with district policies facilitating the access of schools to top teacher talent. 2. Work culture. Policies encourage a professional and collaborative culture, including a work schedule that allows for sufficient planning time. 3. Evaluations. Teachers' performance evaluations play a critical role in advancing teacher effectiveness. 4. Tenure. Tenure is a meaningful milestone in a teacher's career and advances the district's goal of building a corps of effective teachers. 5. Compensation. Compensation is strategically targeted to attract and reward high quality teachers, especially those in hard-to-staff positions. For this analysis we explored the policies (found in both the collective bargaining agreement and state law) that shape teacher quality. We collected personnel data from the district and met with teachers, principals, union leaders and district administrators to get a better understanding of how these policies play out in practice. We also compared the policies in KCMSD with those of surrounding districts and the 100-plus districts found in the NCTQ's TR3 database. Lastly, we laid out a blueprint of suggested improvements and highlighted possible solutions that have been successful elsewhere. This is the full version of this report. The executive summary is SSRN abstract No. 1746969 and is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1746969.
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Download or read book Complex Justice written by Joshua M. Dunn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district. Yet even after increasing employee salaries and constructing elaborate facilities at a cost of more than $2 billion, the district remained overwhelmingly segregated and student achievement remained far below national averages. Just eight years later the U.S. Supreme Court began reversing these initiatives, signifying a major retreat from Brown v. Board of Education. In Kansas City, African American families opposed to the district court's efforts organized a takeover of the school board and requested that the court case be closed. Joshua Dunn argues that Judge Clark's ruling was not the result of tyrannical "judicial activism" but was rather the logical outcome of previous contradictory Supreme Court doctrines. High Court decisions, Dunn explains, necessarily limit the policy choices available to lower court judges, introducing complications the Supreme Court would not anticipate. He demonstrates that the Kansas City case is a model lesson for the types of problems that develop for lower courts in any area in which the Supreme Court attempts to create significant change. Dunn's exploration of this landmark case deepens our understanding of when courts can and cannot successfully create and manage public policy.
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Download or read book Putting Performance on the Map written by IFF Chicago and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting Performance on the Map: Locating Quality Schools in the Kansas City, Missouri School District reports the geographic distribution of school performance within the boundaries of the Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD). At a time of momentous change for KCMSD, this report provides baseline data on school-age children, enrollment in District and charter schools, and school performance by zip code in the district. The premise of this report is that all children living within the KCMSD boundaries should be able to attend a school performing at or better than state standards in the neighborhood where they reside. This report provides a different analysis of school performance and enrollment data than that of the District, with a focus on the location of schools relative to where school-age children in the district live. It also reports data on charter schools, which are independently operated public schools open to any child residing in the district. Finally, this report identifies how the District's plan to close, restructure, or move 23 elementary and secondary schools affects the number of seats in better performing schools across the district. The shrinking enrollment in KCMSD schools is the result of both declining population in the city as families move to other parts of the metropolitan area, the reduction in the school district boundary, and the migration of students to charter schools. Between 1999 and 2010, 27 charter campuses opened within the district, 24 of which were open during the 2008-2009 school year and are included in this analysis. Thirteen of these schools opened in 1999, the year after the enactment of Missouri's charter school law. Today, roughly one-third of public school students within the boundaries of KCMSD attend a charter school. Despite diversity among the types of schools in the district, 88 percent of KCMSD and charter students attend schools where performance lags behind the 2008 Missouri state standard, which requires that approximately half the students in a school reach proficient or above on standardized exams in Communication Arts and Mathematics. This analysis delineates where children in the district reside and whether or not they have access to a school that reached just 50 percent of the Missouri state standard, which is approximately one-quarter of students reaching proficient or above in both Communication Arts and Mathematics in 2008-2009. The following analysis is based on a methodology developed by IFF in 2003 and used to study schools in Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Denver. It is a point-in-time analysis that captures the geographic need for performing schools based on enrollment during the 2008-2009 academic year. This study also looks at the effect of KCMSD's “right-sizing” plan on the configuration of schools in the district and the distribution of performing schools. Putting Performance on the Map complements KCMSD's recent work by aggregating data at the zip code level and including comprehensive individual profiles of each zip code with detailed data on enrollment in KCMSD and charter schools. This report documents KCMSD and charter schools by geography, and in doing so, will provide essential information to allow the Kansas City, Missouri community to create quality schools for all children in the KCMSD boundaries.
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