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State Representative Jim Buchy
Opt Out Impact
on Adjusted Report Cards
Buchy Voices Growing Concerns About the Impact of Opt-Outs on Local
Schools
COLUMBUS- State Representative Jim Buchy (R- Greenville) has released
adjusted report cards for schools in Auglaize, Darke, Mercer and Shelby
counties as concerns grow about the impact on local scores from
students who opted out of the 2014-2015 PARCC examinations.
In December, legislators introduced House Bill 420, which would have
required the Ohio Department of Education to issue data to account for
students whose parents elected for their child to “opt-out” of PARCC
examinations.
“The Ohio Department of Education has issued some adjusted grades, but
have been unable to effectively communicate the impacts of opt-outs on
the report cards,” Buchy said. “Upon the release of the report cards
last month, I was surprised how difficult it was to review accurate
scores.”
Representative Buchy has been working with ODE officials to ensure that
the entirety of the Department’s website reflects the modified rankings
for Ohio’s schools. In an effort to let residents of the 84th
House District know how their schools performed, he has issued adjusted
report cards for the 27 schools in Auglaize, Darke, Mercer and Shelby
counties.
“In all the years I have served in the legislature I have never before
been driven to do the job of a bureaucratic agency for them,” Buchy
said. “The data on the adjusted report cards reflects data I have
received from the Ohio Department of Education, but it more clearly
reflects the impacts of those who did not take the test.”
Representative Buchy has posted the adjusted report cards at
tinyurl.com/adjustedreportcards These report cards are unofficial and
serve only as a way of reviewing school results to consider the
impact of the high level of “opt-outs.” The Ohio Department of
Education has posted official results at
www.reportcard.education.ohio.gov
Representative Buchy has made protecting children and communities from
the results of the failed PARCC test a primary goal. He was the
author of House Bill 7, which passed through the legislature in
February of 2015 to extend safe harbor to all Ohio students to ensure
that students could not be harmed by the results of the unproven,
untested PARCC examinations. At that time, Representative Buchy
spoke publically about the importance of all students taking the PARCC
test with an understanding that it could not result in them being held
back or having their class grades impacted.
Download the attached for individual districts here
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