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What We're Monitoring

These are the places where Shaker Heights School District says one thing and families experience another. We follow each one,  we research and present to district leadership and the community our findings.

School Bell Schedule

Special Education

Whether families get plans and services, or just paperwork.
Monitor: evaluation delays, denied services, post-school outcomes.

Discipline & Disparities

Who gets suspended, for what, and whether the numbers fall the same way across every group of kids.
Monitor: discipline data by race and disability status.

Detracking

Who ends up in which classes, how early it's decided, and who gets told they're not "advanced" material.

District Finance

Whether families get plans and services, or just paperwork.
Monitor: evaluation delays, denied services, post-school outcomes.

Minority Teachers

Whether the adults in the building reflect the children in it.
Monitor: hiring and retention.

Safety

Whether "safety" is used to protect children or to police them.

Books vs. Screens

What's actually driving instruction, and what families are told.

Modified Curriculum & Alternative Educational Settings

Whether "modified curriculums and alternative educational settings" are treated as relevant, sustainable, diverse and forward thinking options with sufficient investment to ensure leading educational opportunities and resources, sufficient professional staffing that shows up in the services and outcomes.

Seeing something we're not monitoring?

Tell us → support@shcea.org

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