ERIC Number: ED586284
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jun
Pages: 11
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Citywide Education Progress Report: Boston
Center on Reinventing Public Education
The Citywide Education Progress Reports evaluate how a city is doing across three goals: (1) The education system should be continuously improving; (2) All students should have access to a high-quality education; and (3) The education strategy should be rooted in the community. Across each goal, indicators are presented of system reforms and outcomes. These city reports focus on education strategies for the 2017-18 school year. Analyses reflect developments through June 2018, and these are updates to the original reports from the 2016-17 school year. To understand how well cities are doing, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) used state and federal data to track school improvement, graduation rates, and student access to high-quality schools. To understand city strategies and identify early progress, interviews, surveys, public documents, and news articles from 2014-2015 to the present were relied upon. This analysis uses data for district and charter schools to look at all schools within municipal boundaries, rather than just one sector or district. For over 20 years Boston has been a national leader in applying school autonomy, district school choice, and high accountability standards to drive student learning and school model variety. Currently, education leaders are focused on improving community engagement and the choice process via more information for parents on schools. In the wake of the 2018 departure of Superintendent Tommy Chang, the city must push harder for equitable access to high-quality options: achievement gaps for students of color, English language learners, and students with disabilities has widened per the most recent NAEP scores. Ensuring that low-income families and communities of color in particular can provide broad input continues to be a challenge. [For the main report, "Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice?," see ED578178.]
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate, Socioeconomic Influences, Family Involvement, Accountability, At Risk Students, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Enrollment, Transportation, Community Involvement, Charter Schools, Administrator Role, Teacher Competencies, Educational Finance, School Choice, Educational Improvement, School Districts, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Center on Reinventing Public Education. University of Washington Bothell Box 358200, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-685-2214; Fax: 206-221-7402; e-mail: crpe@u.washington.edu; Web site: http://www.crpe.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts (Boston)
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