The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce today released its annual Education Report Card for MNPS today.
Here are some highlights:
The graduation rate, which measures the percentage of all students who graduate from high school within four years, plus a summer period, fell from 81.6 percent in 2015 to 81 percent in 2016. The number of MNPS students taking the ACT increased by 586 students in 2016, while the percentage of those scoring at least a 21 dropped from 30 percent in 2015 to 28 percent in 2016. Based on these limited results, we must conclude that MNPS did not record overall improvement during 2015- 2016 – for the second year in a row. With a new director of schools and executive team in place for the 2016-2017 school year, there is an expectation in the community for MNPS to resume a faster pace of improvement.
And the recommendations:
1. Metro Schools should expand its commitment to school-based budgeting to ensure equitable access to resources across all schools.
2. The State of Tennessee should incorporate measures of both career and college readiness into the new school and district accountability system.
3. Metro Schools should ensure that its early-grade teachers have demonstrated expertise in literacy instruction.
4. Metro Schools should measure each school’s implementation of the district’s literacy initiatives to ensure fidelity.
5. Metro Schools should engage community partners in developing a citywide plan and timeline to ensure early-grade (K-2) literacy by May 2017.
For more details on the findings used to reach the recommendations, read the full report.
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