KnowledgeWorks Foundation has announced receipt of $7.4 million for the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative (OHSTI). Youngstown is one of the nine partner school districts, and the OHSTI aims "to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, and student supports to help schools and students meet challenging performance goals." The grant covers three years.
One thing that caught my attention was on the KnowledgeWorks site: Career Pathways Explored: Stories from Ohio
This [ten-minute] video documents the importance of forming partnerships between education, economic, and workforce development organizations to address turning the regional economy around. The video does so by featuring employers, students, and workers in their own voices, discussing the need for Ohioans to continue to upgrade their skills and education to compete in a changing "knowledge economy."It recommends the video to "anyone seeking to revitalize regional economies". Well, that sounds like us!
4 comments:
This is the last school district in America that deserves a 7.4 million dollar grant.
Give it to the Youngstown Catholic Diocese and their outstanding schools. Ursuline-Mooney-JFK and all the elementary Parochial Schools have the best test scores in the entire Mahoning Valley.
So, the Youngstown City Schools should be consigned to eternal decline? Give the money to the schools that are already excelling? Sounds like a proposal to extend the status quo. Maybe the school districts, like Youngstown, that need the money the most are, in fact, the ones that deserve it the most?
THEY DESERVE NOTHING.
67% Graduation Rates are what I call FAILING, PATHETIC, AND UN-DESERVING!
Unless you're suggesting the public schools should close, then we need to find a solution for improvement. Complaining about their graduation rates highlights the problem fine but does nothing to solve it. Let's focus on solutions here, please.
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