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May 11, 2023 18 tweets 9 min read Read on X
🚧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
- Updated teacher exodus data
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

Guess which one is Clark County… Image
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Reading performance in CCSD has dropped by almost half a grade level since the pandemic

OVER DOUBLE the drop experienced by the next lowest district

Has it always been like this?
OR
Should the Board open its eyes to how disastrous this leadership has been for our students Image
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Were we ever headed in the right direction???

In the early 2000’s Nevada’s 4th graders were consistently performing about a year behind their national peers in 4th-grade reading.

But then… Image
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Nevada made massive investments in early literacy.

In 2019, Nevada’s 4th graders who had exposure to those investments from Kindergarten through 4th grade took the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

So, what happened….

#ThankALegislator #NVleg Image
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Wow!

In 2019, for the 1st time ever, Nevada’s 4th graders performed in line with their national peers

From 2009-2019, only 3 states in the US made more progress than Nevada

Our teachers, our administrators, and our community did that.
What do they all have to say now… Image
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The teachers who improved early literacy outcomes and closed gaps with the national average have NO CONFIDENCE in the Superintendent. Image
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The principals who improved early literacy outcomes and closed gaps with the national average have NO CONFIDENCE in the Superintendent. #NVed #NVleg Image
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The business community that supported the massive investments in early literacy that closed national gaps has NO CONFIDENCE in the Clark County School District. Image
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Just how disastrous has the leadership of the Clark County School District been?

Let’s look…. Image
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At the height of the pandemic, CCSD made the biggest blunder in education history

They PAID admin to retire early resulting in the largest exodus of administrators EVER

When needed most CCSD lost:
- Top Performing Principals
- Head of Transportation
- Head of Technology Image
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Last year, CCSD saw the largest exodus of teachers EVER

And this does not include all the teachers that moved to fill in all the vacant administrator positions. Image
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This year’s teacher exodus is second only to last year’s unprecedented disaster

Just how bad is it this year?

There’s a bigger difference between this year & the next highest year than there is between the next highest year & the lowest year

#ContinuedDisaster Image
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Tens of thousands of parents have opted out of CCSD for their children

This is happening while the school-aged population of Clark County CONTINUES TO GROW!!!

That’s right, there are MORE school-aged children in Clark County. We are growing. The District is NOT. Image
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What has happened to early literacy since Nevada’s teachers, principals, and community closed seemingly insurmountable gaps for our students?
#NVed #NVleg Image
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While the rest of Nevada experienced a minor decrease,
CCSD’s 4th-grade reading performance completely plummeted.

CCSD went from outperforming the rest of NV to significantly below the rest of the state. Image
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All we hear from CCSD leadership & the School Board are excuses

Blame the community
Blame the principals
Blame the teachers

Those being blamed have proven they can do right by students

We need leadership with solutions not excuses
#WhoWillStepUp Image

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Nov 9, 2023
The Twitter account for the Superintendent of the 5th largest school district in the US allegedly posted a crude, misogynistic message.

We don’t know if it’s real, fake, or a hack.

But we’re good at going through data, so let’s review what’s out there…
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5:41am @Kbelknap822 takes a screenshot of the tweet that was posted 20 seconds earlier

25 minutes later, at 6:06 AM, Kenny posted the screenshot

Seems unlikely he thought to forge ALL those details

But hard to say for sure🤷‍♂️ Image
@Kbelknap822 3/?

If the screenshot is real, it seems there are 2 options…

Either somebody without access hacked the account and posted the message

OR

Somebody with authorized access to the Superintendent account posted the message Image
Read 16 tweets
Nov 3, 2023
🔎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

This is what CCSD reported.
We have done no calculations to aggregate these numbers.
We only put them in a chart. Image
Read 12 tweets
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:

- National public-school average
- Large urban district average
- The rest of Nevada

Yes, everybody had a setback, but it was NOT the same Image
Read 17 tweets
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:

- Drove out 1,000s of teachers
- Rampant vacancies
- Paid experienced leaders to leave
- Community trust broken
- Teachers & Principals calling for Supt to be fired Image
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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
- Rampant vacancies
- Paid experienced leaders to leave
- Community trust broken
- Teachers & Principals calling for Supt to be fired Image
Read 9 tweets
Jun 24, 2023
💡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…
Read 8 tweets
Mar 23, 2023
🚧 CAUTION 🚧

CCSD released its new transparency dashboards yesterday.

We applaud transparency, but it must be meaningful, not just numbers on a website.

Proceed with CAUTION, the data does not come with any context.

Let’s bring some context to the data. A thread 🧵
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#NVed Image
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First, let's look at staffing, the MOST IMPORTANT issue in #NVed

The dashboard has staffing counts. That's nice.

You just can’t compare it to anything.
Not even another school year.

Let’s bring some context to this data… Image
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CCSD has been hemorrhaging teachers.

All the staffing gains that were made after the Great Recession have been wiped out! Image
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