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City Day sponsor urges superintendent’s removal
By Scott Elliott
Staff Writer
The sponsor of City Day Community School has urged its board to remove Superintendent Roseda Goff following what it says are continuing problems with state tests.
In February the Dayton Daily News cited strong similarities between questions on practice tests given to students at the charter school last year and questions on the actual state exams later administered.
Phyllis Brown, legal counsel to Education Resource Consultants of Ohio, said the sponsor observed more testing irregularities by school staff while ERCO staff administered Ohio Achievement Tests earlier this month.
Brown said the incidents were reported to the state education department, but would not elaborate on the nature of the problems. The Ohio Department of Education declined comment.
“During the administration of the tests, ERCO had issues with some employees at the school,” Brown said. “They were not problems of test security, but they were problems that could, if not found, lead to questions about the accuracy of the results of the test.”
In its stories, the Dayton Daily News found 44 questions on practice tests taken by City Day students just days prior to the 2006 state tests that were identical or substantially the same as questions that appeared on the actual state exam.
And when state report cards came out last year, huge gains in the percentage of students who passed the test helped the school jump two steps up the state’s lowest rating scale from the lowest category of “academic emergency” to “continuous improvement.” About 170 students attend the school at 318 S. Main St.
Brown said the testing problems and other “leadership issues” at the school caused ERCO to strongly urge the City Day governing board to replace Goff, one of the school’s original founders.
“It’s up to the board of the school to terminate her,” Brown said. “As a sponsor we can recommend to the board and maybe even take disciplinary action down the road, but she works for the board. We believe there should be a change at the highest levels of leadership, namely the superintendent.”
Efforts to reach Goff, school administrators and governing board members were unsuccessful. The board is scheduled to meet Thursday at the school at 6 p.m.
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