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TIME TO SPEAK UP: State budget impacts and testing

Community CONNECTION

April 7, 2015

CONTACTING LEGISLATORS: Mayfield Community - Now’s the time to voice your concerns about school funding and testing

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS: Superintendent Keith Kelly and the Mayfield Board of Education have been meeting with legislators and representatives at the local and state levels over the last several months to share the concerned voice of Mayfield City Schools related to state budget impacts and testing.

If you would like to be heard on behalf of Mayfield City Schools, emails to key legislators and representatives are below.

“Education has become a political football,” said Superintendent Keith Kelly after he and the Mayfield School Board attended the State Legislative Conference at the Statehouse last month.

Key concerns Mayfield leaders have shared with local and state legislators include:

Testing:

Our students are over-tested which takes away from classroom teaching and learning. While we understand the value of appropriate testing measures, the current testing mandates cause undue stress on students
We value our teachers and appreciate their skills to teach our students. The required amount of testing is limiting our teachers’ abilities to teach
Testing our students should have more “local control.” High-performing school districts should not be forced into a one size fits all approach to how our students are tested and measured
Connecting student test scores to a teacher's performance rating is a poor practice and takes away from their ability to teach to the whole child

Budget: