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State to investigate City Day testing
By Scott Elliott Staff Writer
DAYTON — City Day Community School is investigating its own handling of Ohio Achievement Tests last year and a state school board member has promised a state investigation will follow.
The Dayton Daily News this month revealed similarities between practice questions used at City Day to questions on the actual state math exam. Students practiced on questions that were identical or substantially the same as top secret questions that appeared on the state exam.
On Thursday, the school’s interim governing board president, Clinton Brown, said City Day was conducting its investigation of the test preparation practices last year.
On Thursday, the school’s interim governing board president, Clinton Brown, said City Day was conducting its investigation of the test preparation practices last year.
The Ohio Department of Education’s usual process in cases of testing irregularities is to allow the school to conduct its own probe first and report the results.
State officials then decide if more investigation is needed.
Carl Wick, a state school board member from Centerville, said the state will follow up on when the school’s self check is complete.
“Yes, there will be an investigation,” he said.
State Rep. Clayton Luckie, D-Dayton, attended City Day’s board meeting Thursday and urged the board to have students re-take last year’s exam to prove if the results were correct.
“If there is still a question, then re-take the tests and put all doubts aside,” he said. “That would stop a lot of this stuff. If the kids score back where they were within 4 or 5 percent, the case will be closed.”
Luckie said the charter school had a responsibility to react as aggressively to test security concerns as any other public school.
“You’re just as responsible to make sure things are done right — that test administration is done right,” he said. “You have a big task ahead of you to prove your test scores are what they are.”
Brown responded for the City Day’s board: “I don’t think we’re in any position to answer questions at this point.”
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