❓What is Going On❓

CCSD’s back to school good news story has been met with overwhelming negativity.

This thread gets to the truth of what’s going on.
Read the thread. Spread the Truth.

#CCSD #Nved #BackToSchool
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The Story:

CCSD is starting the school year with their lowest teacher vacancy rates in 30 years.

A 73% drop in teacher vacancies from 1,034 to 280!

So, what are the people saying???

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🤷‍♂️

🔎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!!! 🤯

🎄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…

🔥Results Are In🔥

CCSD's Accountability data was released today!

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

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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

💡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% ???

🚧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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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.

🚧 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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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…

🚨 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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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

🎉Happy Nevada Education Data Day to all those who celebrate!

Nevada Report Card has been updated with data from the 2022 school year.

It’s time to celebrate all the schools that knocked it out of the park last year!

#Nved #EDdata
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First up, 3rd Grade Math

@WashoeSchools making it look easy and taking half of the 10 top spots in the state!

Drake has stolen the crown from @PAN_Inspirada who led the state in 3rd grade math last year.

Congrats to all!

🎉 Back To School 🎉

It’s the start of another school year in Las Vegas!

There’s so much to be excited about, so many opportunities, and so many who need our help.

Let’s review…

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There are amazing schools where students will have a nurturing environment and amazing support to thrive and grow.

#Insprired #Amazed

🚨 WTF Alert 🚨

Time for a thread on the Jara regime’s relationship with truth & transparency

Regarding teacher attrition,
yesterday in the Las Vegas Sun,
Superintendent Jesus Jara allegedly claimed:

“….CCSD was seeing normal, not accelerated, attrition this year.” #WTF

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Jara’s CCSD has had trouble w/ teacher workforce reality for a while

In March, CCSD told News 3 they were only short 77 teachers. #WTF

REALITY: CCSD started advertising current year vacancies as next year's positions.

Months earlier they told the RJ they were short 850

🚨 SCAM ALERT 🚨

On Thursday @ClarkCountySch will present an update on teacher vacancies to the Board.

The presentation is EXTREMELY misleading.
This thread explains how.

WARNING: This thread contains a lot of data, but you should still read the WHOLE thread.

#NVed #CCSD
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Here's the 1st chart on teacher/licensed staff counts in CCSD's presentation

Look at the chart & see if it conveys the BIGGEST headlines about CCSD's teacher workforce
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🚨BREAKING🚨

CCSD’s latest teacher separation report is out.

It's bad and we are in uncharted territory.

Read the whole thread to find out who knew what when.
#CCSD #NVed

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This is what the cumulative teacher/licensed staff separations look like in a typical year for CCSD.

They slowly accumulate August through March and then accelerate April through July when staff start to say they’re not coming back next year.
#AverageAttrition

🚨🚨 Sound the Alarm… Again🚨🚨

The Clark County School District is still losing teachers/licensed staff faster than ever before!

It’s so much worse than you think.

Read the whole thread!

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From Aug. through Jan. there have been 67% more licensed/teaching staff separations than a typical year over the same time period.

Almost 300 more than the next highest year!

WARNING: Long Thread

We’ve shared a lot of data about Supt Jara's leadership of CCSD regarding:

1. Broken Trust
2. Teacher Exodus

This thread attempts to address the context some have said we’re missing

Let's add some context...

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TRUST

The community has not trusted CCSD for years, well before Jara became Supt.

Trust was so bad in 2015, Gov. Sandoval signed legislation to break up CCSD.

This ultimately became what is now called the Reorg Law (NRS 388G.500)

🔍🔍Data Investigation 🔎🔎

After not sharing parent & staff feedback on the Districtwide survey for over a year, CCSD finally posted some old data.

Let’s investigate to see what they may have been hiding from the public!

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Posting survey results on their website is required of CCSD by Nevada law.

We originally called them out for this in December 2020.

#WheresTheData #ComplianceDefiance

🚨🚨Sound the Alarm🚨🚨

The Clark County School District, under the leadership of Jesus Jara, is losing teachers/licensed staff faster than ever before!

This thread reviews the latest data!
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We’re in the 3rd month of the school year & 664 teachers/licensed staff have announced they're leaving CCSD.

- 66% more than a typical year
- 31% more than the next highest year

⏰⏰Attention⏰⏰

We want to alert you to one of the largest operational blunders in Nevada education history…

And what it means for our kids!

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When Jara's contract was renewed & he said we need to focus on stability, did anybody tell him what that means?

Because CCSD just lost more principals & admin last school year than ever!

Smashing the previous record set the prior year under Supt Jara!

We’re so excited about the start of school and teachers reuniting with students.

BUT…

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It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room.

CCSD executive leadership is failing our children.

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