An accountability tool placed in the public eye each year Quotes from the Centers June 2010 report Complex and sometimes unpredictable The volatility is extraordinarily high Its kind of hard to keep it all in my head ID: 435516
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The NYC Department of Education’s School Progress Reports:
An accountability tool placed in the public eye each year.Quotes from the Center’s June 2010 report: “Complex and sometimes unpredictable.” “The volatility is extraordinarily high.” “It’s kind of hard to keep it all in my head.” “Rankings swing dramatically.”
Our question: What would it take to create a consumer-oriented tool that provides parents with the information they want and need about the city’s public high schools? Can we do it?Slide2
From Research to Policy: NYC School Accountability
Our Task: “Put Up or Shut Up”… A Better Way to Measure Schools? Slide3
WHO
GRADUATES?
COLLEGE PREP
SPORTS & ACTIVITIES
AT A GLANCE
SAFETY & CLIMATE Slide4
SAFETY & CLIMATE
WHO GRADUATES?
COLLEGE PREP
SPORTS & ACTIVITIES
AT A GLANCESlide5Slide6
From Research to Policy: NYC School Accountability DOE Now Overhauling Its Accountability Tools
Center’s Policy Report: Analysis what working and not.Center’s Charge: Talk to families; produce something better—for Insideschools.org readers and
the DOE.
High Level Policy Event:
Unveil our ideas, discuss challenges. Promote to press and policymakers.
Unveil New Inside Stats Tool:
On Insideschools.org
New Mayors Vows to Overhaul Progress Report:
Center is assisting DOE in developing range of new school accountability tools to be unveiled this fall. Slide7
Serving Our Three-Level Audience: Policy Impact Most Effective Campaigns Are Strong on Each Level
Elementary Chronic Absenteeism (2008 report) Results: Mayor’s Citywide Chronic Absenteeism Pilot
State Juvenile Justice Reform (2009 report)
Results: State Commissioner Adopted Mental Health Reforms
Education System Reform (2014 report)
Results: Tapped for Accountability & Middle School Initiatives Slide8
Lesson Learned by the Center for NYC Affairs: Takeaways for Research-Driven Policy Reform
Start From the Ground: Requires time, access, depth.Use Journalistic Tools to Communicate: Simple writing, illuminating graphics, focus on news and fresh ideas.
Promote with Events and Press: Find the most compelling headlines; aim to inform, entertain, shock.
Build Trusted Relationships:
On all three levels.
Research Should Always be the Beginning, Not the End:
Should inform and drive debate and action. Slide9
Questions and Answers