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🚨 Data Investigation 🚨

Tonight, the CCSD Board will be meeting for the evaluation of Superintendent Jesus Jara.

The data they will review is so bad it even shocked us.

They don’t even address the elephant in the room.

Let’s take a look…
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#Nved #CCSD
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Student Proficiency

Look at all that green! Isn’t it amazing!

NO mention that only 54% of students participated in the test last year.

Let’s try looking at a different comparison w/ more context…
#DataInvestigation
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Did you know before Jara was Supt, CCSD had a HIGHER 3rd-grade proficiency rate than the rest of Nevada?

It’s true!

But not anymore.

Why wasn’t this mentioned in the evaluation?
The other schools in Nevada went through the same pandemic.

#ContextMatters
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It’s true when you break out results by student ethnicity too!

Students in CCSD who identified as Hispanic had higher proficiency rates in CCSD prior to Jara.

Now they're 2.5 points below the rest of the state.

#NoGreenInThisChart
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The change is even starker for students who identify as Black.

While proficiency rates for Black 3rd-graders have been decreasing in CCSD, they have been going UP in the rest of the state!

You probably didn’t notice this in Jara’s evaluation.
#TRUTH
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Look familiar?

Same pattern, but now we’re looking at students who identify as Asian.

Gains in the rest of the state while CCSD loses ground.
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It’s not just 3rd-grade reading.

CCSD is significantly losing ground in MS math too.

That didn’t stop them from putting green all over Jara’s evaluation for middle school math proficiency rates.

#SameStateDifferentResults
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Less than 1 in 10 Black middle school students is proficient in Math in CCSD

Yet, proficiency rates have been going up in the rest of #Nved

That didn’t stop Jara from getting a green box on this very metric

#Unacceptable
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Next up – Student Discipline.

More green boxes.

What’s interesting these aren’t even metrics in Focus 2024.

Seriously…
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Here are the metrics from Focus 2024.

No metric comparing enrollment rates to suspension rates.

But there is a metric asking students if they feel safe at school.
Let’s look at that…
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Crazy that this metric from Focus 2024 is not in Jara’s evaluation.

It turns out students do not feel any safer at their school.

And it’s even worse than this depending on where you live…
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Only 69% of students in North Las Vegas said they feel safe at their school.

In other words, almost 1 in 3 students DO NOT feel their school is safe.

Almost 1 in 3 students don’t feel CCSD is meeting their basic need for safety.

#NotInJarasEvaluation
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No student perceptions in Jara’s evaluation.

And there is no parent and staff perception data in the evaluation either!

CCSD has it, but they’re not putting it in the evaluation.

Want to see why….
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Parent & Staff trust in CCSD is the lowest EVER!

Look at these numbers! This is insane.

Only 1 in 3 staff believe CCSD is transparent and open about the way it operates.

In other words, 2 in 3 staff think CCSD is hiding something from you!🤯
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We’re not talking about a few people.

Over 14,500 school staff took this survey and almost HALF of them do not believe CCSD is a credible source of information.

How could Jara’s evaluation be credible if the people in CCSD don’t believe CCSD is credible???
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The survey data just confirms what we already know…

Staff are fed up with the DISTRICT’s BS.

Last year CCSD saw the greatest exodus of teachers & licensed staff EVER, but you wouldn’t know that from Jara’s evaluation.
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Under Jara’s leadership, administrators have been heading for the doors at the fastest pace ever

Not only are we losing experienced leaders, but it’s also exacerbating the teacher shortage

Guess where you won’t hear anything about this…
That’s right, Jara’s evaluation!
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When it comes to staffing, Jara’s evaluation is all green!

#Speechless
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The truth is you won’t see any of this presented in Jara’s evaluation.
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None of this will matter when the Board reviews Jara’s performance.

This is not the data they are looking at.

A multi-billion-dollar organization is evaluating its leader based on 3 cherry-picked metrics and our children will continue to suffer as a result.
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2nd tweet in the thread, we said CCSD's participation rate on the SBAC last year was 54%

We meant last year Spring 2021,
not last school year Spring 2022

Their comparisons are not apples-to-apples.
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🔎Let's Take a Look🔎

How bad have things gotten in CCSD that the Speaker of the State Assembly is calling on Superintendent Jesus Jara to resign?

Let's look at the latest data fiasco.
No, not the data breach…

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CCSD just published the teacher vacancies report for last school year.

It reports that CCSD averaged 1,583 vacancies for just general fund teacher/licensed staff positions in schools.

That’s a whopping 12.3% vacancy rate!!! 🤯 Image
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Here are the teacher vacancies CCSD reported for the last 5 years:

2019: 275
2020: 686
2021: 824
2022: 903
2023: 1,583

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Sep 17, 2023
🎄Merry Excusemas🎄

If ifs & buts were candy & nuts, every day would be Christmas for Jara apologists.

"…but COVID"
"...but historically"
"…but but but"

This thread is too long, but let’s get at it…
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“…but COVID”

Yes, reading scores went down for the whole country.

Nevada’s scores dropped DOUBLE the national average, AFTER closing a massive & persistent learning gap

How much of that is attributable to CCSD… Image
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“...but everyone experienced learning loss”

CCSD’s drop in 4th grade reading was over DOUBLE what it was for:

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Yes, everybody had a setback, but it was NOT the same Image
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Sep 16, 2023
🔥Results Are In🔥

CCSD's Accountability data was released today!

Let's do a quick review of the results & school star ratings...

(1/?) #NVed #CCSD Image
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CCSD posted its LOWEST EVER reading proficiency rates on the SBAC

Not surprising... over last couple years:

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- Rampant vacancies
- Paid experienced leaders to leave
- Community trust broken
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Only 1 in 5 kids headed to high school are proficient in math

Not surprising... over last couple years:

- Drove out 1,000s of teachers
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- Paid experienced leaders to leave
- Community trust broken
- Teachers & Principals calling for Supt to be fired Image
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💡We may have finally figured out how CCSD produced this completely inaccurate & irresponsible data point.

They have once again shown they have no competence in working with data or communicating with the public.

Read the thread for details…
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Here are the official grad rates for the Class of 2022 for all of the high schools in North Las Vegas.

Depending on which schools you include the actual grad rate is between 74% - 85%.

So how did CCSD come up with 51% ???
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You need to add over 1,600 students to NLV’s student count without adding ANY graduates to get the total overall grad rate down to 51.5%

Let’s put that into context…
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🚧WRONG WAY🚧
No more excuses!

Read the whole thread to understand how CCSD has been driving #NVed in the WRONG direction

We'll review where we've come from and how we've gotten all turned around
- New national data
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And More!

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#Nved #NVLeg Image
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This morning’s NY Times referenced data from The Educational Opportunity Project

They've charted the change in average reading scores since the pandemic

Each dot is a school district

Higher dot, reading performance improved.
Lower dot, reading performance worsened. Image
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The highlighted bubbles represent the 10 largest districts in the US (NY did not have data)

Higher bubbles = Students have done better in reading since the pandemic

Lower bubbles = Students have done worse in reading since the pandemic

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