Cincinnati Public Schools lead post-pandemic growth

Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) are on a positive path toward achievement growth, outpacing other urban districts across the country.& The Education Recovery Scorecard, a collaboration between the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, issued a report on the first year of academic recovery for school districts.  While the pandemic caused significant drops in achievement across all grade bands for K-12 public schools across the country, CPS focused on safely educating students and simultaneously planning and implementing aggressive recovery initiatives for students to stop grade-level learning loss.  Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent and CEO Iranetta Rayborn Wright said, “To get back to 2019 achievement scores, our Board of Education also began a strong effort to develop a student outcome governance model with metric-driven goals and guardrails. Over the past two years, our teams have been deep in the instructional work each day, seeing and experiencing progress. “Our internal data indicates it is working, but it is evident we need to see how we compare with other districts to share and leverage best practices.” The Education Recovery Scorecard indicates positive growth for CPS in math and reading, with even more impressive results when...