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City Day fires Goff, installs new leaders
Roseda Goff
By Scott Elliott
Staff Writer
City Day Community School Wednesday fired Superintendent Roseda Goff and installed a new governing board as its new leaders promised to start with a clean slate after months of turmoil.
In a sweeping action, the new board members fired Goff, replaced her with principal Shonice Carr, created a dean of students position and named Bryan Richardson, a former rental car manager, to fill that job.
“We have to promote an integrity-based school operation,” Carr said. “A lot of things have occurred and been alleged. Whether true or not, the perception is very real.”
The Ohio Department of Education continues to investigate two incidents of mishandling of state achievement tests at the charter school.
In February, the Dayton Daily News reported that 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. Then in May, test monitors caught a City Day employee taking notes while reviewing an Ohio Achievement Test that students were to take later in the week.
The school’s sponsor, Cincinnati-based Education Resource Consultants of Ohio, then blamed Goff, the last of the City Day’s four founding teachers still running the school, for a “lack of institutional control” that resulted in testing investigations and other management problems.
In its first order of business, the board terminated Goff’s employment and “any association she has with City Day school” effective immediately and barred her from school grounds.
New governing board president Richard Rucker pledged better leadership for the school.
“We’re here to support City Day to the best of our ability, to make sure it is financially stable and the management and leadership of City Day is effective to make sure the children of City Day get the best possible education,” he said.
Leonard Harding, ERCO’s executive director, praised the new board.
“We feel at ERCO we put together the strongest possible board in the Dayton area,” he said.
Rebecca Moore, one of several teachers who attended, hailed the board’s actions.
“We’re really excited to have a new beginning,” she said.
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