District leaders say Oregon school reform plan gets the details wrong – Salem Reporter:
Castañeda, who helped design school accountability systems in Rhode Island, said many of the governor’s ideas are already being done in Salem-Keizer. Those include using data throughout the school year to identify struggling students and involving local school boards in setting and monitoring goals.
But she said there’s no data showing coaching by state officials works to help struggling schools better serve students.
“There is no proven model for directed coaching. There is no proven model for punitive financial intervention. Those are elective choices that this legislation has adopted and there are alternatives that are just as bold, just as serious, just as complicated, but there is a playbook for making them work,” she said.
Kotek’s plan gives more power to the Oregon legislature and the Oregon Department of Education, the very groups who’ve created the problems public education in Oregon faces. It’s an insane plan.