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ERCO names new City Day board
By Scott Elliott
Staff Writer
City Day Community School, plagued by testing irregularities and management problems, has a new governing board.
The charter school’s sponsor, Education Resource Consultants of Ohio, fired its governing board on June 1 after board members failed to comply with its demand to fire Superintendent Roseda Goff. ERCO took control of the school’s operations and placed Goff on paid administrative leave.
The new board will meet for the first time on July 11 at 6 p.m. at the school, said Phyllis Brown, ERCO’s legal counsel. One of the first orders of business for the new board members will be to decide Goff’s fate, she said.
The five new board members were selected by ERCO from a pool of applicants. They are:
—Eddie Charles Jeter, a career development specialist with the Dayton Jobs Corps.
—Sheila Ballard, a branch manager with Fast Payday Loans of Ohio.
—Darlene Ellissa Jones, a local minister.
—Rachael Hutchison, director of social services for Englewood Manor nursing home.
—Richard Rucker, school director for RETS Tech Center of Centerville.
In February, a Dayton Daily News examination found City Day students practiced on 44 questions were identical or nearly the same as questions that later appeared on the actual state exam in the days leading up to the March 2006 administration of the Ohio Achievement Tests. In May, ERCO monitors caught a City Day employee taking notes while reviewing an Ohio Achievement Test that students were to take later in the week.
ERCO then blamed Goff for a “lack of institutional control” that resulted in mishandling of state exams and other management problems. A state investigation into the testing incidents is still underway.
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