41st Annual Oklahoma Career and Technology Education Summer Conference Lealon Taylor Chief of Staff Oklahoma State Department of Education

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41st Annual Oklahoma Career and Technology
Education Summer Conference Lealon TaylorChief
of StaffOklahoma State Department of Education
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Public School Demographics
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Big Picture Demographics
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Big Picture Demographics
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Big Picture Demographics
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Big Picture Demographics
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• Performance Measures
• Rates and Rankings
• State Support

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LATEST NATIONAL RANKINGSFACTS AND FIGURES

• March 2008 For the fifth year, Oklahoma is the
  national model for Pre-Kindergarten programs and
  one of only two states offering voluntary access
  statewide.
• Oklahoma ranks No. 1 in the percentage of
  four-year-olds attending public school programs
  and as one of only ten states meeting nine or
  more of ten early childhood education quality
  standards.

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LATEST NATIONAL RANKINGSFACTS AND FIGURES

• December 2007 Oklahoma has the 9th highest
  number of National Board Certified Teachers in
  the U.S. and the 6th greatest growth in number of
  nationally certified teachers compared to 2006.
• 58 of Oklahomas nationally certified teachers
  are employed in the higher-poverty schools
  compared to 40 percent nationally.

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LATEST NATIONAL RANKINGSFACTS AND FIGURES

• March 2008 Oklahoma ranks 11th in its composite
  grade on Technology Counts 2008, a national
  report by Education Week.
• Oklahoma received a grade of B-, compared to the
  national average grade of C.

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LATEST NATIONAL RANKINGSFACTS AND FIGURES

• January 2008 After evaluating policies and
  performance in 150 categories of education
  reform, Education Week ranks Oklahoma 28th
  overall on its 12th annual Quality Counts
  report.

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LATEST NATIONAL RANKINGSFACTS AND FIGURES

• September 2007 Oklahoma is one of 14 states in
  the U.S. to improve mathematics scores at Grade 4
  and 8 in 2007 on the National Assessment of
  Educational Progress (NAEP).
• NAEP scores improved for Grade 4 reading but were
  statistically unchanged in Grade 8 reading, which
  remained at the national average.

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National Measures
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National Measures
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Local State Accountability
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ACE LAW For a high school diploma -- beginning
with 9th graders, 2008-09
State Mandate

• Students must pass 4 of 7 tests
• Algebra I and English II end-of-instruction (EOI)
  tests required
• Plus, two of five other EOIs
• Algebra II, Biology I, English III, Geometry or
  U.S. History
• Achieving Classroom Excellence (ACE) Act, Senate
  Bill 1792, signed June 7, 2006

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FY2009 ACE-Related Requests

• ACE Remediation 10,512,270
• ACE Intervention 120,000
• ACE Graduation Coaches 20,000,000
• ACE Middle School Math Labs 4,000,000
• ACE Reading/Math Coaches 2,800,000
• ACE Public Engagement Initiative 1,000,000
• ACE Math/Science Incentive 30,000,000
• Online Testing 22,000,000
• Strengthening State Assessments 3,100,000
• TOTAL ACE-RELATED REQUESTS 93,532,270

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Prisoners of Time, 1994

• Learning in America is a prisoner of time. For
  the past 150 years, American public schools have
  held time constant. ...
• The rule, only rarely voiced, is simple learn
  what you can in the time we make available.
• Prisoners of Time, Report of the National
  Education Commission on Time and Learning
• April 1994

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41st Annual Oklahoma Career and Technology
Education Summer Conference Lealon TaylorChief
of StaffOklahoma State Department of Education