{"id":14658,"date":"2016-05-10T14:17:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14658"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:18:05","slug":"ucf-board-likely-to-look-at-uhs-rankings-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14658","title":{"rendered":"UCF board likely to look at UHS rankings again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Directors seek to add data to student rankings<\/em><\/h2>\n

By Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"UHSRankings\"EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 It appears the much-discussed subject of student ranking will make a return at next week\u2019s Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education meeting, less than\u00a0two months after the board agreed to a compromise proposal to end decile rankings of students at Unionville High School.<\/span><\/p>\n

What remains to be seen is whether a revised plan \u2014 put forward by board director Robert Sage during Monday night\u2019s board work session and backed by his colleague John Murphy to add reporting the school\u2019s top grade point average as well as the number of students with GPAs above 4.5 \u2014 will garner enough support during next week\u2019s meeting at Pocopson Elementary to further change the new policy and administrative guidelines adopted back in March. <\/span><\/p>\n

At least four board directors \u2014 Jeff Hellrung, Carolyn Daniels, Michael Rock and Gregg Lindner \u2014 have made it clear that they will be \u201cno\u201d votes on the measure. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo have these ideas come up so late, after the fact, makes a mockery of all of the public discussions that were held,\u201d Daniels said in opposing the change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Hellrung said he is not opposed to the concepts proposed, he said he feels it is appropriate for the board to stick by the compromise hammered out \u2014 and give it time to see how the process works out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the discussions Monday night, it appears the concept will have trouble getting to the five votes needed for approval. There didn\u2019t seem to be lot of sentiment in support of revising a new standard that passed by 7-2 vote \u2014 after months of public wrangling and passion over the previous decile reporting system, one where UHS students were broken into which tenth their academic performance represented in their class. <\/span><\/p>\n

That reporting, it was suggested, hurt the college applications of students in the second and third deciles at minimum, while proponents argued that high-achieving students deserved to enjoy the benefit of their success. After much debate, the board voted to end decile ranking and instead report a GPA distribution to provide context to colleges and universities on an individual student\u2019s GPA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The issue is expected to come up for a vote, next Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other district news, district officials reviewed details of the new staffing guidelines related to specific enrollment numbers as they relate to the proposed budget for 2016-17. Under the proposals, some part time time positions would go to full time, while some services currently being outsourced to the Chester County Intermediate Unit would be brought back in house. Additionally, a core teacher for Charles F. Patton Middle School would be added to ease class sizes in the building. The new standards will also like mean one less teacher at Unionville High School \u2014 a position eliminated through attrition.<\/span><\/p>\n

The majority of additional staffing comes in special education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, district officials put the brakes on a proposal to hire an outside firm to help develop a strategic plan \u2014 DemoSophia made a formal presentation at the April work session. The board plans to discuss district goals and what the goals should be for such a strategic plan \u2014 or even the process to get community input on what those goals should be \u2014 during a board retreat sometime before the start of the 2016-17 school year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Directors seek to add data to student rankings By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 It appears the much-discussed subject of student ranking will make a return at next week\u2019s Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education meeting, less than\u00a0two months after the board agreed to a compromise proposal to end decile rankings of students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14659,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions\/14659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}