Jackson Jambalaya

What exactly do they do all day at these charter school? Sling paint against a wall?

8 of the top 12 school districts are "breakaway" districts that are surrounded by terrible districts but have the advantage of being small and separate from the terrible schools. Clinton is separate from Hinds County (and borders Jackson) yet performs at the third best level in the state.

3 of the remaining four are school districts in which their is a breakaway district that functions at a lower level, although Canton's improvement is to be celebrated, its still 140 points below Madison County.

There's not an exact science to interpreting these raw scores, but if every student in the district made a perfect score, the district score would be 900. The student scores are Levels 1-5, with Level 3 being passing,

Madison County had 70.5% students at Level 4 or 5 in Math and 66% at Level 4 or 5 in English. 87 percent of Madison County students improved their scores from one year to the next.

In the bold new city, 30.4 of students were Level 4 or 5 in Math and 34.3% were 4/5 in English. 71 percent of JPS students improved.

Clinton got their scores on the Math side - 75.9% of students were 4/5 and 92% improved. Impressive.

Canton is an oddity. Does Gluckstadt fall under Canton? Everything else there is exactly what I would expect.

JPS is "recommending" that their IEP-identified students attend charters. This forces the charters to shoulder the burden and improves JPS's test scores in the process. Charters can't say no to the families and must provide the same accomodations as the giant district. It's a monumental task for these small schools.

Waiting on the "Clinton is doomed" guy

@12:53

I ve been in many IEP meetings in my life, not once has anyone ever recommended sending one of those children to a charter school. You are full of sh--

It would take some significant proof before I would believe the Canton scores are valid. And to answer a question, the Canton district extends south and west beyond the Canton city limits and does take in some neighborhoods such as Lake Caroline.

12:32 - the schools in Gluckstadt are part of the Madison Co. district.

1:09 - that's not what the students' parents are saying.

I’ve seen my fair share of bs in JPS that outsiders wouldn’t believe, but I have a hard time believing 12:53.

As in many things, the Gulf Coast dominates in Mississippi.

All the North side of Lake Caroline is in Canton School District

@2:20 the coast is an absolute gem for MS…from a Delta boy that loves seafood!

2:20 The Gulf Coast is influenced by Southern Louisiana and the New Orleans vicinity more than Mississippi. It's always been a little different than the rest of Mississippi. It helps.

All the arguments in favor of charter schools have been defenestrated.

KF, the explanation for Canton's rating can be traced to Carey Wright's formula of grading schools.

MS public schools should never be trusted. One of their stunts is to hold back under-performing 3rd graders to re peat, thereby improving 4th grade credentials.

Choice and Voucher accounts enable parents to put kids in school of their choice, thereby rewarding better performing schools with more revenue and punishing punk schools with less revenue.

Clinton is no longer doomed.

@12:27
They do much more. They lobby for more tax payer money for charter schools. And apparently they’re not very good academically.

@4:56
Children are held back becuse they FAILED an early life test. They may fail for many reasons: intellect, socio-economic background, political issues, etc. Look at the data before you print! The charter schools are dragging down otherwise good results from Canton public schools.

Don't we have an issue with the credibility with what's come out regarding the fraud in JPS? Is it in other districts too and just hasn't come out?

12:53 is right… not sure if it’s being encouraged but the charters absolutely have to take them and it hurts them. But hey, gotta support that JPS jobs program, amiright??

This man hit the target dead center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98

I don’t believe a single digit of this. Cheating on the scoring of student achievement occurs all across the fruited plain, Atlanta and Dallas just two coming to mind. Compare these scores to the 20 or so (so-called) developed Western countries and I will wager the results are at or very near the bottom of the list.

Jackson missed being a B bone single measly point.

Kingfish: Canton's test taking participation rate was less than 95%. Therefore, by policy they got the hammer dropped on them: Docked a letter grade. I believe there is an appeal process.

If JPS told disabled kids to go to a charter they would be breaking the law.

Here is a pdf that explains the situation to parents of disabled kids: https://sites.ed.gov/idea/files/dcl-factsheet-201612-504-charter-school.pdf

Unless there is a charter school which is setup to specifically serve a certain segment of the disabled population, like the School for the Deaf, for instance, they have to serve the disabled the same as everyone else, just like every other public school has to do.

Those saying otherwise do not appear to be telling the truth. Read the pdf at the above link for the proof.

I worked in the school system for 15 years. Any and all "data" that is reported by them to whoever is collecting it is exaggerated, inflated, or flat out contrived to the max. Believe it.

Everyone in the system is aware of it, but you're not supposed to say a thing about it. Depts. of Education (DOEs) are nothing more than jobs sites. There is very little learning happening. It's just a yearly activity children are forced to do that keeps tens of thousands of folks employed in a so-called feel-good job, but it's the golden handcuffs of PERS they endure the charade for, and so DOEs can spread the money around.

This is great news for Jackson and environs, because I thought there had to be educable children enrolled before there could be any improvements in academic achievement.

Kingfish - when you release school level data, take a look at College and Career Readiness for the high schools.

The suburban schools do as expected, with Madison Central leading the way. The JPS high schools are around a 15% average - with some under 10%. For example, 8% of Lanier graduates are considered college or career ready. That is our city's future workforce. No wonder there is no industry in Jackson.

Following 4:56’s logic, Madison Central and St. Andrew’s will have no problem taking all the Wingfield students after it closes or the 92 percent of Lanier students that aren’t college and career ready. What a crap show that would be.

Can Judge Wingate and Ted take over MDE and JPS? Better yet, can the Governor just save the taxpayers a crap ton of money and get rid of MDE and investigate the JPS higher ups?