Preliminary OGT test results were released by the Ohio Department of Education for Goshen schools. Three of the four Goshen schools will receive an effective rating on the state report card. Spaulding Elementary will continue to be rated excellent. Schools must pass 29 or 30 of the indicators to be ranked "excellent, Goshen met 25 out of 30 state indicators. The indicators are made up of test scores, graduation rate and attendance.

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posted by Cindy Wright at Friday, July 27, 2007 0 Comments

Preliminary OGT test results are in for Youngstown Ohio. Almost two-thirds of the public school 10th-graders who took the Ohio Graduation Test in March passed all five sections of the exam. 134,010 public school students took the test. The figures are only preliminary; the final version will be reported in the annual state local report cards in mid-August. Youngstown city schools showed improvement over 2006 preliminary scores but is still lagging behind all the other public schools in the tri-county area in terms of percentage of students passing all five sections of the test. Canfield schools scored highest from Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties with nearly 90% of its 10th graders scoring proficient or above in all five of the test categories.

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posted by Cindy Wright at Friday, July 27, 2007 0 Comments

Ohio’s efforts to give high-school students early access to college courses, is leaving minority students behind. School’s in Franklin County have among the state's lowest student-participation rates in Post-Secondary Enrollment Options, a state initiative that allows high schoolers to earn credit toward a college degree while they are also earning a high-school diploma by taking college courses at no charge to the student.

Michele Brown, manager of the program for OSU. Says it is her opinion that “Since this program first started, it was never promoted to give access for underserved students as much as it was to give students who are ready for college a head start." Ohio State University has about 400 students in the program. A number that has remained steady since 2000, more than 80% of those students are from suburban schools and likely would have gone to college anyway.

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