Academic Accountability
In addition to the annual CPF report, the SCSC publishes the following academic performance reports each year:
Academic Accountability Briefing
- The Academic Accountability Briefing serves as a companion to the Academic section of the CPF report. The briefing provides an in-depth review of how state charters performed on each of the CPF academic accountability metrics (CCRPI, VAM, BTO) as well as historical performance trends.
State Charter School Performance Report
- The State Charter School Performance Report is compiled by the state’s academic accountability agency, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement (GOSA), to evaluate the performance of all state charter schools using a “value-added” model (VAM) that includes statistical controls for observable student characteristics and prior academic performance. Because this analysis includes a value-add component that controls for student characteristics, it allows for fairer performance comparisons between state charters and traditional schools.
Explanation of 2021-2022 Academic Scores
The U.S. Department of Education (USEd) provided State Education Agencies (SEAs) the opportunity to amend their consolidated State plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) for the 2021-2022 school year. The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) submitted a request to amend the State’s consolidated plan on March 3, 2022, and a revised request on April 26, 2022. USEd approved GaDOE’s COVID-19 State Plan Addendum for the 2021-2022 school year on May 26, 2022.
The request included the suspension of certain academic indicators utilized within the statewide academic accountability system to account for pandemic-related data disruptions. Those indicators include those used to calculate the Progress, Closing the Gaps and Readiness components of CCRPI. As such, those component scores as well as overall summative ratings, Beating the Odds designations, and letter grades for the state, districts, and schools were not reported. To account for the absence, the SCSC contracted with a researcher at Georgia Southern University to calculate Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) and value-added measures (VAM) and used these measures to assess state charter schools' growth for the 2021-2022 school year. The academic section of the CPF has been modified to account for the changes. The academic briefing reports scores related to the updated, alternative measures. Please refer to either of those documents for more details.
Explanation of 2020-2021 Academic Scores
The disruption in teaching and learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led the United States Department of Education (USEd) to grant the Georgia Department of Education’s (GaDOE) accountability waiver request for the 2020-2021 school year. As such, data critical to calculating all SCSC CPF academic performance metrics (e.g., the CCRPI), Value-Added Measure (VAM), and Beating the Odds (BTO) are not available.
GaDOE’s request for a waiver from federal assessment requirements was NOT granted. Thus, the statewide summative assessments, the Georgia Milestones Assessments were administered in the 2020-2021 school year. Using Georgia Milestone data, scores generated by GaDOE and where necessary school-administered benchmark assessment results, the SCSC crafted alternative measures to assess school performance for the 2020-2021 school year. On October 27, 2021, the SCSC approved a waiver from the traditional CPF academic measures and adopted the alternative measures. The academic section of the CPF has been modified to account for the changes. The academic briefing reports scores related to the updated, alternative measures. Please refer to either of those documents for more details.
Explanation of 2019-2020 Academic Scores
The disruption in teaching and learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led the United States Department of Education (USEd) to grant the Georgia Department of Education’s (GaDOE) assessment and accountability waiver request for the 2019-2020 school year. As such, the statewide summative assessments, the Georgia Milestones Assessments were not administered in the 2019-2020 school year. Georgia Milestones Assessment data are critical to calculating all SCSC CPF academic performance metrics (e.g., the College and Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI), Value-Added Measure (VAM), and Beating the Odds (BTO) Thus, no academic data are available to report.