Dr. Andres Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools “Update on the Status of Baltimore City Schools” Presentation to The Leadership January 18, 2011

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Great Schools: 2011 & Beyond
GBC Leadership Alumni Presentation
January 18, 2011
ANDRÉS A. ALONSO, CEO
BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
200 E. NORTH AVENUE
BALTIMORE, MD 21202
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2. Streamlining the Central Office
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FY 2011
FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010
992
1,487 FTEs 1,186 FTEs 1,007 FTEs
FTEs
34% Reduction in central office* FTEs
since FY08
* The following positions are backed out of the central office roll-up above:
- Certain school-based operations employees
- School police
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3. Empowering School Communities:
Central Office Structure in Year 1
3
Transformation
Restructuring
City Schools
redesigned the
City Schools remaining central
Decentralization insisted that office support
each staff to create a
City Schools department “network”
shifted realign itself structure that
Consolidation ~$140M to along new would provide
school service- support to
budgets oriented schools
City Schools goals and
cut $40M and principles
300 FTEs
from the
central office
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4. Transformation: In year 2, City Schools redesigned the remaining
central office support staff to create a “network” structure to
provide more direct support to schools
School
Moving from a School
School
compliance-focused
organization … HR Budget Finance
School
Fragmented, often School PD Attend. Ac. Sc. Sch.
Achieve. Office
reactive support, Ele. Sch.
far away from the Office Title I Etc…
work of schools School School
School School
…to a performance-
driven organization that
supports school-based Network Network Etc.
#1 #2
decision-making:
Network Team Members
Problem-solving, focused • Network Leader
teams closer to schools; • Instructional Support
flexible design to meet the
10-15 10-15 • Finance & Ops
Schools Schools • Special Pops
individual needs of schools • Human Resources*
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5. Enrollment Trends
SY ‘95 to SY ‘10
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120,000
113,428
109,980 108,759
110,000 107,416 106,540
103,000
98,226
100,000 95,475 94,031
91,738
88,401
90,000 85,468
82,381 81,284 82,266 82,866
80,000
70,000
Number of Students
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Note: 2008 includes the return of three Edison Schools
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6. Student Achievement Since 2004
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 School Readiness has more than doubled since 2004
 Increase of more than 137 percent
 Grades 1 and 2 achieved significant gains on Stanford 10 since 2004
Reading Math
Grade 1 +44.7 percent +52.2 percent
Grade 2 +41.6 percent +52.5 percent
 Grades 3 to 8 made significant progress on Maryland School
Assessments since 2004
Reading Math
+48.3 percent +97.9 percent
 More than tripled the number of students passing High School
Assessments since 2005
 More than doubled the number of students enrolled in Advance
Placement classes since 2004
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7. Graduation & Dropout Rates
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80 Unduplicated Grad Rate Graduation Rate Dropout Rate
70.0
70 66.6
60 65.9
62.7 62.7
58.7 58.5 59.0 60.6 60.1
50 54.2 54.3
49.5 50.6
40 46.2 46.0
42.6
30
20
13.8 13.5 11.7 10.3
10.2 10.9 10.4 11.3 10.3 10.5 11.7 9.4
10
7.9 6.2
4.1
0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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8. Good News from 2009-10
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Graduation rate Drop out rate
is 66% is 4.1%
three three
year year
increase decrease
of 10% of 56%
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9. African American Males Lead Decrease in
Dropout Rate
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All
African Students-
American City
Males-City Schools
Schools
56%
Decrease
59%
Decrease
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10. High School Choice
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Continued high school choice for all 8th graders. The % of
students making a choice expanded over the last four years.
Applications % Students
For School Year
Received Making a Choice
2006-2007 6,013 88.3%
2007-2008 5,666 90.7%
2008-2009 5,921 91.2%
2009-2010 5,433 96.8%
2010-2011 5,116 97.8%
NOTE: The percent participation increases even though the applications decrease because the
number of 8th graders this year dropped by about 400 district-wide (primarily due to birth
rate).
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11. Launched Middle Grade Choice
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35% of 5th graders chose a school for 6th grade.
Est. # of schools
Student Group Priority
and students*
All 5th-grade students currently attending
36 schools
K-5 elementary schools that are feeder 1
schools for traditional middle schools** 2,028 5th graders
All 5th-grade students who currently attend
16 schools
K-5 elementary schools that are feeder 2
schools for elementary/middle schools 688 5th graders
All 5th-grade students who currently attend
PreK-8 and K-8 schools; and all 5th-grade 70 schools
2
students who currently attend charter 3,130 5th graders
schools and Transformation Schools***
*5th grade enrollment as of February 18, 2010
**Also includes two non-zoned charter schools
***Includes KIPP with grades 5-8.
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12. Student Population
in Operator-led Schools
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SY08 SY09 SY10 SY11
Traditional Schools 71,905 70,412 69,095 65,970
Charter Schools 5,520 7,403 8,361 9,281
Innovation High Schools 1,651 1,393 1,231 838
Transformation Schools 0 800 2,838 5,362
Turnaround Schools (with operators)* 0 0 0 1,833
Other (Contract, “New Schools”) 2,208 2,258 1,341 1,471
SY08 SY09 SY10 SY11
Percentage of District Enrollment in
88.5 85.6 83.4 77.8
Traditional Schools
Percentage of District Enrollment in
11.5 14.4 16.6 22.2
Operator-led Schools
* Does not include one Turnaround School that is also a Transformation School
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13. School Leadership Profile
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School Year Principals
Hired
SY04-05 11
SY05-06 41
SY06-07 18
SY07-08 17
SY08-09 39
SY09-10 41
SY10-11 (until Dec. 31) 45
Total 212
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14. Changing Teacher Population
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School Year* Teachers
Replaced
SY04-05 635
SY05-06 682
SY06-07 833
SY07-08 926
SY08-09 726
SY09-10 657
SY10-11 (until Dec. 31) 104
Total 4563
* For teacher population, school year is defined as Sept 1 to Aug 31.
Replacements listed include both voluntary and involuntary separations
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15. City Schools’ New Teacher Contract
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What the
new BTU Allows for shared
input on the
contract measures for teacher
quality and
does for City effectiveness
Schools
Provides rewards
and incentives Creates of culture
needed to attract of collaboration
and retain the and shared
best teachers for leadership
our students
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ANDRÉS A. ALONSO, CEO
BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
(410)396-8803
aalonso@bcps.k12.md.us
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