As Gossips has already reported, the Hudson City School District Board of Education has initiated the process of searching for a new superintendent. In the meantime, a reader sent the link to tables that show the percentage of students in Grades 3 through 8 in New York who scored proficient on statewide assessment tests in the 2024-2025 school year. The tests are administered in math and in ELA (English language arts--reading and writing). In the tables, school districts are listed in descending order, from highest scoring to lowest scoring. - The table for math is thirty-six pages long, and you have to click through to page 35 to find HCSD. Of the 608 students who took the test, only 25 percent scored proficient in math.
- The table for ELA is forty-four pages long, and the results for HCSD appear on page 41. Of the 621 students who took the test, 31 percent scored proficient in ELA--reading and writing.
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While it’s hard to conceive of such epic failure being “bested” by even worse districts than HCSD, I’m interested in when the state might determine that HCSD is failing per the statutes.
ReplyDeleteThe status of the superintendent search remains something of a mystery—nothing posted on the HYA site or the district’s own. One hopes this silence signals openness to a less conventional candidate, someone beyond the usual cycle of public-school disappointments. Because doing things “the way they’re always done” is how we got here.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it ain't gonna happen, Nobletowner. based on the agenda from the Jan 20 BOE meeting (https://go.boarddocs.com/ny/hudsoncsd/Board.nsf/Public). I didn't go to the meeting or watch the video so it's possible they were visited by the Holy Ghost, but my guess is they chose the road of failure. Steven Wilson's comment below suggests how deeply embedded the habits of non-learning are.
DeleteThese results are beyond shocking. In Math, Hudson ranks 520th of 531 districts in the state; in English it places 601st of 658. And this in an extraordinarily high-spending district. For shame. It's foolish to think that another superintendent is going to change this from within. The only way is to build outside it--to open an academically serious charter school, with an organizational culture of drive and excellence, that offer parents a true alternative. We now know that a school where virtually every child is found academically proficient--and on the path to college and career--is entirely possible.
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