PARCC Results with Ed Commissioner, School Committees + Unions

Panel 
Dave Layman - Moderator
Tim Duffy, Executive Director, RI Association of School Committees
Dr. Ken Wagner, Rhode Island Education Commissioner *
Robert Walsh, Jr., Executive Director, National Education Association RI

Topics

Rhode Island Education Special Topics: 

• Recent PARCC Results 
• Achievement gap grows, how do we resolve that? 
• Some improvement but is it enough? 
• Empowerment Schools 
• What’s the point? 
• Cost? 
• Teachers Unions on board? If not, why not? 
• Are they just a hybrid of Charter Schools? 
• Should RI move towards MA education model? 
• Some say it’s outdated. If so, how? 
• Why are MA test scores considerably higher than RI? 
• Governor’s computer science goals 
• Are they realistic from a resource and cost perspective? 
• Do enough teachers truly have the skills to teach CS? 
• Could those $$ be used somewhere else with better results?

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