Education That Gets Results and Gives the Taxpayers Their Money's Worth
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT SCHOOLS THAT SUCCEED: A high-performing, cost-effective educational system is achievable. Real schools serving real students in really tough environments are already showing results. They are beating the odds and proving success is possible. Here are some of the hallmarks of these schools:
• Results: Everyone at the school knows where they stand on student results compared to their peers. Moreover, results at these schools are benchmarked against high performing schools, and not schools that let them look good.
• Responsibility: Within every high performing school, the adults take responsibility for student success. They refuse to participate in the practice of blaming poverty, parents, and poor support for student results. This sense of responsibility by the educators inspires students, parents, and community members to also take responsibility for student results.
• Students: Students and their success become the focus of daily work. Contracts, reforms, communications, school design, and all other decisions are driven by a simple question…Will this improve student success?
• Choice: High performing schools embrace choice. They recognize that when adults compete for the right to educate our children, the children win.
• Flexibility: High performing schools have been successful despite being unnecessarily burdened by rules and regulations that too often raise barriers to creativity and problem solving.
• Technology: Technology is often added to existing school structures like butter onto toast. Simply installing computers isn’t enough. Students only truly benefit when technology and technology-based instruction are integrated into every aspect of the school experience.
Reforms that put students first are needed: The reforms we will implement are aligned to what high performing and improving schools require. These reforms will allow great teachers, principals, superintendents, and school boards to assure student results. They will move Ohio from being a manager of the educational status quo to a model that other states will emulate.
• Welcome Teach for America: Make Ohio the preferred destination for creative, talented educators by improving educator licensure processes.
• Reward superior educators: Provide a bonus for student learning, let teacher quality drive employment decisions instead of seniority, test teachers in failing schools, and streamline the teacher dismissal process for poor-performing educators.
• Support innovative, successful schools and close failing schools: Give parents the right to reconstitute their children’s school, create innovation schools, rank schools in the basis of student performance and cost effectiveness, create a student results driven recognition program, and revoke the charter of the poorest performing schools.
• Expand school choice: When adults compete for the right to educate our children, the children win. Reforms include doubling the number of EdChoice scholarships that are available, removing the cap on community schools, and enhancing community school access to facilities.
• Welcome innovative tech-driven educational models: Enhance access to affordable online courses, advance acceptance of virtual learning as a choice for course completion, and streamline the state’s digital leadership structure.
• Invest in students, not bureaucracies: Encourage shared services and repeal the Evidence-Based Model for funding.
THE OUTCOME: Ohio's future depends on our children being the best and brightest in the world. Our education system must deliver better results at a better value for the taxpayers. The reforms we will implement will support and encourage such an educational system.
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