Who says that Yocum didn't earn his salary?
Local schools' report card results mixed
By CHAD KLIMACK
Licking Heights and Southwest Licking local schools received their local report cards on Tuesday, and the results were mixed.
Southwest Licking earned an effective rating for the second year in a row by meeting 21 of 25 performance standards.
Licking Heights, meanwhile, earned a continuous- improvement designation, the third time the district has received such a rating in the last three years. Licking Heights met 15 of 25 standards, an improvement from the 12 standards the district met in 2004-05.
Southwest Licking Superintendent Forest Yocum pointed out his district narrowly missed earning two more standards.
"We were very close to picking up a number of those, but close doesn't count," Yocum said. Only in horseshoes.
Southwest Licking scored 74.7 percent on the sixth grade math achievement test, and a 73.8 percent on the eighth grade math achievement test. Seventy-five percent is a passing mark.
The only other standards Southwest Licking failed to meet were the fifth- and seventh-grade math achievement tests.
Like Southwest Licking, Licking Heights narrowly missed picking up additional standards. The district nearly met standards on the fourth-grade reading achievement test and the eighth-grade reading achievement test. Again, a passing mark is 75 percent, and Licking Heights scored 72.4 percent on the fourth-grade test and 74.5 on the eighth-grade test
Licking Heights Superintendent Ernest Husarik said his district is working hard to improve its math and reading scores. The district recently gave Cyndi Toledo, principal at Licking Heights North, the responsibility of handling curriculum-related issues, Husarik said.
"I would say that people here are working with great diligence in these two areas," he said. "Mathematics is always a challenge, but we are meeting the challenge, and we have great expectations to see our scores rise."
Licking Heights fared well on the 10th- and 11th-grade Ohio Graduation Tests, meeting nine of 10 standards, but struggled on the third-, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade achievement tests. Of those tests, the district met just four of 13 standards.
Some of the tests for the lower grades were being offered for the first time, and Yocum said that fact may have prevented some districts from achieving higher scores. Both Yocum and Husarik promised their districts' teachers and administrators will be better prepared when the next round of tests are given. We'll hold you to that!
"We're looking at the kinds of questions our kids missed, so we can redesign our curriculum so next time they can answer those questions correctly," Yocum said.
Both school districts also hope they can improve one other portion of their state report cards.
Neither Licking Heights nor Southwest Licking met Adequate Yearly Progress, a requirement of the No Child Left Behind Act. As part of AYP, schools must meet annual goals regarding the percentage of students, including subgroups, who are proficient or above in reading and math and are in attendance and graduate during the school year.
Yocum shook off Southwest Licking's designation, noting it is an unfair aspect of No Child Left Behind because a school district can earn an excellent rating on its state report card and still not meet AYP. School officials from around the state have made similar arguments, but Husarik said Licking Heights has been given the task of meeting AYP, and that is what it intends to do.
"We have that as one of the standards, and that's one of the standards were are going to meet," he said.
Yocum is not over paid and not getting big raises. I think he well worth the money. Our school are better than your school!
By CHAD KLIMACK
Licking Heights and Southwest Licking local schools received their local report cards on Tuesday, and the results were mixed.
Southwest Licking earned an effective rating for the second year in a row by meeting 21 of 25 performance standards.
Licking Heights, meanwhile, earned a continuous- improvement designation, the third time the district has received such a rating in the last three years. Licking Heights met 15 of 25 standards, an improvement from the 12 standards the district met in 2004-05.
Southwest Licking Superintendent Forest Yocum pointed out his district narrowly missed earning two more standards.
"We were very close to picking up a number of those, but close doesn't count," Yocum said. Only in horseshoes.
Southwest Licking scored 74.7 percent on the sixth grade math achievement test, and a 73.8 percent on the eighth grade math achievement test. Seventy-five percent is a passing mark.
The only other standards Southwest Licking failed to meet were the fifth- and seventh-grade math achievement tests.
Like Southwest Licking, Licking Heights narrowly missed picking up additional standards. The district nearly met standards on the fourth-grade reading achievement test and the eighth-grade reading achievement test. Again, a passing mark is 75 percent, and Licking Heights scored 72.4 percent on the fourth-grade test and 74.5 on the eighth-grade test
Licking Heights Superintendent Ernest Husarik said his district is working hard to improve its math and reading scores. The district recently gave Cyndi Toledo, principal at Licking Heights North, the responsibility of handling curriculum-related issues, Husarik said.
"I would say that people here are working with great diligence in these two areas," he said. "Mathematics is always a challenge, but we are meeting the challenge, and we have great expectations to see our scores rise."
Licking Heights fared well on the 10th- and 11th-grade Ohio Graduation Tests, meeting nine of 10 standards, but struggled on the third-, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade achievement tests. Of those tests, the district met just four of 13 standards.
Some of the tests for the lower grades were being offered for the first time, and Yocum said that fact may have prevented some districts from achieving higher scores. Both Yocum and Husarik promised their districts' teachers and administrators will be better prepared when the next round of tests are given. We'll hold you to that!
"We're looking at the kinds of questions our kids missed, so we can redesign our curriculum so next time they can answer those questions correctly," Yocum said.
Both school districts also hope they can improve one other portion of their state report cards.
Neither Licking Heights nor Southwest Licking met Adequate Yearly Progress, a requirement of the No Child Left Behind Act. As part of AYP, schools must meet annual goals regarding the percentage of students, including subgroups, who are proficient or above in reading and math and are in attendance and graduate during the school year.
Yocum shook off Southwest Licking's designation, noting it is an unfair aspect of No Child Left Behind because a school district can earn an excellent rating on its state report card and still not meet AYP. School officials from around the state have made similar arguments, but Husarik said Licking Heights has been given the task of meeting AYP, and that is what it intends to do.
"We have that as one of the standards, and that's one of the standards were are going to meet," he said.
Yocum is not over paid and not getting big raises. I think he well worth the money. Our school are better than your school!
posted by Tough_Waters at 8:37 AM
2 Comments:
Dr. husirak is over payed. $430 a day. get real. all this man does is walk around and see what the staff i doing. this school needs someone that knows something about education and spyin on the maintance staff at 11pm. Until then Vote NO
I said Yocum not Husirak but you may have a point if you look at the fact that:
Federal district court judges are paid $165,200 annually; appeals court judges make $175,100; associate justices of the Supreme Court earn $203,000; the chief justice gets $212,100.
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