CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio’s public school districts should come up with a plan to address learning loss by April 1, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.
The ask comes a week after the Ohio Department of Education publicized a report which showed losses for Fall 2020 in both kindergarten readiness and third-grade English language arts scores, two landmark state assessments used to guide a student’s future. The report showed almost half of the students for the literacy and language sections of the kindergarten tests scored “not on track” and proficiency rates in third-grade tests dropped 8 percentage points.
DeWine urged Ohioans to stay calm despite the concerning losses and brought state Superintendent Paolo DeMaria to Tuesday’s briefing virtually to discuss the results. DeMaria said most districts anticipated these drops and are working to address them, and recommended looking at individual student needs rather than the average on state testing. DeWine wants a plan, though, so that the state and the legislature can work on making changes to support schools through recovery.
“We need to be bold in our ideas,” he said.
DeWine also outlined some of the funding available for making these changes, including $2 billion in additional federal funding approved in December. The state is upping “wellness dollars,” which aim to provide support services for schools like supporting mental health initiatives. The proposed state budget for 2022-23 relies on federal funding for coronavirus safety in schools, but allocates an increase of $100 million in wellness dollars for each year, with the budget accounting for $13.1 billion to schools and districts across the state.
The Ohio legislature moved closer last year to determining a revised school funding formula which would determine the cost of educating individual children. That proposed formula, as passed by the Ohio House, died at the end of the year in Senate Committee. The formula would adjust the cost of education per child depending on factors like whether the child has a disability or is economically disadvantaged.
A report examining the learning loss in Ohio students for Fall 2020 found that the losses for the third-grade tests were steeper in areas with higher rates of job loss and COVID-related unemployement.
Each school district may already have started on a plan, but DeWine wants a public discussion on how to recover lost learning. This could include extended school day hours, more tutoring, remote learning options or adding days to the beginning or end of the school year.
“Regardless of the individual plan, we have to move, and we have to move quickly,” he said.
That conversation has already started in Cleveland. Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon said in a city council meeting Monday that the district won’t just fail students who have fallen behind, but expects the district to offer a robust summer learning program to help kids catch up. Gordon, when asked at a vaccination event on Tuesday whether he felt secure in funding for return to school, said short-term funding feels secure, especially with the recent federal dollars. He worries though, about long-term funding, and noted that when the 2008 recession hit, the district’s most-strained budget was the year after the economy started to recover.
Vaccines are also key in the return to school buildings, and DeWine said on Tuesday he’s happy with the shift in public school districts moving from remote to in-person learning. Many schools and districts are in the midst of vaccinating school staff. Those vaccines were made available on the condition of returning to buildings -- in some form -- by March 1.
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-- See when your Ohio school’s staff is set to start receiving coronavirus vaccines
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