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The NYC Department of Education’s School Progress Reports:

The NYC Department of Education’s School Progress Reports: An accountability tool placed in the public eye each year. Quotes from the Center’s June 2010 report: “Complex and sometimes unpredictable.” “The volatility is extraordinarily high.” “It’s kind of hard to keep it all in my head.”

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The NYC Department of Education’s School Progress Reports:

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  1. The NYC Department of Education’s School Progress Reports: • An accountability tool placed in the public eye each year. • Quotes from the Center’s June 2010 report: • “Complex and sometimes unpredictable.” • “The volatility is extraordinarily high.” • “It’s kind of hard to keep it all in my head.” • “Rankings swing dramatically.” Our question: What would it take to create a consumer-oriented tool that provides parents with the information they want and need about the city’s public high schools? Can we do it?

  2. From Research to Policy: NYC School AccountabilityOur Task: “Put Up or Shut Up”… A Better Way to Measure Schools?

  3. COLLEGE PREP SPORTS & ACTIVITIES AT A GLANCE WHO GRADUATES? SAFETY & CLIMATE

  4. COLLEGE PREP SPORTS & ACTIVITIES SAFETY & CLIMATE WHO GRADUATES? AT A GLANCE

  5. From Research to Policy: NYC School Accountability DOE Now Overhauling Its Accountability Tools • Center’s Policy Report: Analysis what working and not. • Center’s Charge: Talk to families; produce something better—for Insideschools.org readers and the DOE. • High Level Policy Event: Unveil our ideas, discuss challenges. Promote to press and policymakers. • Unveil New Inside Stats Tool: On Insideschools.org • New Mayors Vows to Overhaul Progress Report: Center is assisting DOE in developing range of new school accountability tools to be unveiled this fall.

  6. Serving Our Three-Level Audience: Policy Impact Most Effective Campaigns Are Strong on Each Level • Elementary Chronic Absenteeism (2008 report) • Results: Mayor’s Citywide Chronic Absenteeism Pilot • State Juvenile Justice Reform (2009 report) • Results: State Commissioner Adopted Mental Health Reforms • Education System Reform (2014 report) • Results: Tapped for Accountability & Middle School Initiatives

  7. Lesson Learned by the Center for NYC Affairs: Takeaways for Research-Driven Policy Reform • Start From the Ground: Requires time, access, depth. • Use Journalistic Tools to Communicate: Simple writing, illuminating graphics, focus on news and fresh ideas. • Promote with Events and Press: Find the most compelling headlines; aim to inform, entertain, shock. • Build Trusted Relationships: On all three levels. • Research Should Always be the Beginning, Not the End: Should inform and drive debate and action.

  8. Questions and Answers

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