SCHOOL SEGREGATION, SCHOOL INTEGRATION AND WHICH OF THESE EXISTING SCHOOLS IN COLLEGE HILL IS ACTUALLY GROWING THE FASTEST?
This article about THE Carpe Diem junior/senior high school (a CPS-sponsored Charter School) considering moving downtown to the Banks is interesting, as far as it goes. It's also interesting and weirdly ironic that the Freedom Center, which is an icon of inter-racial co-operation by telling the story of the bi-racial 19th Century Underground Railroad, is considering hosting what is essentially an all-black, Jim Crow School here in the 21st Century.
Beyond that, journalistically this article raises some additional questions about what is happening at this high school building in College Hill that I hope the Enquirer's education reporter will examine and answer during the coming days.
WHICH HIGH SCHOOL IN COLLEGE HILL IS GROWING FASTER?
THE CPS-SPONSORED CHARTER CARPE DIEM OR CPS'S AIKEN NEW TECH HIGH?
The building in College Hill which houses both Aiken High and Carpe Diem opened at the start of the 2013-2014 school year -- see http://www.cps-k12.org/schoo…/high-schools/new-aiken-program -- to house both Carpe Diem and what is now called "Aiken New Tech" high school (formerly known as Aiken High).
The "New Tech" curriculum concept now used at Aiken (grades 7-12) is a project-based instruction platform that dozens of public high schools and junior high schools around the USA have adopted, including CPS's Aiken HIgh and Winton Woods High which serves nearby Greenhills and Forest Park in Cincinnati's northern suburbs. According to the New Tech websiste -- see http://www.newtechnetwork.org/schools -- the New Tech concept is also used by public high schools and/or junior high schools in Ohio in Akron (at Buchtel High School), in Zanesville, in Cleveland (at Facing History New Tech High School), and in Van Wert.
As far as I know, the Enquirer has never done an article to look at the question of how the project-based Aiken New Tech junior/senior high school (grades 7-12) is doing since it opened in 2013. However, based on the publicly available data on schooldigger.com (an online database that publishes information on public schools across the USA), Aiken's enrollment jumped dramatically from October 2013 to October 2014, from 337 students in October 2013 when the new building opened up to 567 in October 2014. [2015 data should be available in a few weeks, because for funding and comparison purposes the State of Ohio pegs enrollment data to October 15 every school year.
AIKEN NEW TECH'S ENROLLMENT GREW 68% IN ONE YEAR, SO IS CARPE DIEM EXPANDING TO DOWNTOWN OR IS AIKEN GROWING SO MUCH FASTER THAN CARPE DIEM THAT CARPE DIEM NOW NEEDS TO MOVE OUT OF THE AIKEN BUILDING?
This concept of the CPS-sponsored Carpe Diem Charter school opening a location at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center may turn out to great idea -- again, IF this school is integrated instead of segregated as Carpe Diem is today.
For a small junior/senior school like this one (244 student, according to this article), clearly it would be a big asset for the students to go to a school that is located inside an exciting Downtown museum that's located on the riverfront next to the Bengals practice field and to the riverfront parks. Sounds great: an attractive, wholesome environment for teen-agers, with the new GE building located just one block away.
But since the publicly available data suggests that, back in College Hill, Aiken High is growing very fast, and it's likely that Carpe Diem's enrollment is *not* growing this fast (again enrollment at Aiken was up 68% in one year), I think the Enquirer needs to dig a little deeper. Perhaps the *real* reason that Carpe Diem administrators need to move this school to the Freedom Center is that there is no longer room for this school at CPS's apparently fast-growing Aiken New Tech High School.
Again, I don't have all the answer to these questiosn, but I think the Enquirer owe
Ann M. Black - 9 years ago
No more charter schools without a significant increase in accountability and oversight! They must meet or exceed standards of the the present public school system which very few or none of them do.
tony - 9 years ago
Yes, lets go ahead and ruin the Banks, while we are at it. Lets get bunch of trouble maker teenagers in the area to break into cars, steal stuff, jump people and everything else they do at CPS schools. Yes, the museum does not like all the white yuppie people around and want to stack their grounds too. You all can go and fudge yourselves.
karen younger - 9 years ago
No new charter schools. Not enough accountabIity.
ellen shores - 9 years ago
Until the state increases charterschool oversight no new charter schools school open.
SCHOOL SEGREGATION, SCHOOL INTEGRATION AND WHICH OF THESE EXISTING SCHOOLS IN COLLEGE HILL IS ACTUALLY GROWING THE FASTEST?
This article about THE Carpe Diem junior/senior high school (a CPS-sponsored Charter School) considering moving downtown to the Banks is interesting, as far as it goes. It's also interesting and weirdly ironic that the Freedom Center, which is an icon of inter-racial co-operation by telling the story of the bi-racial 19th Century Underground Railroad, is considering hosting what is essentially an all-black, Jim Crow School here in the 21st Century.
Beyond that, journalistically this article raises some additional questions about what is happening at this high school building in College Hill that I hope the Enquirer's education reporter will examine and answer during the coming days.
WHICH HIGH SCHOOL IN COLLEGE HILL IS GROWING FASTER?
THE CPS-SPONSORED CHARTER CARPE DIEM OR CPS'S AIKEN NEW TECH HIGH?
The building in College Hill which houses both Aiken High and Carpe Diem opened at the start of the 2013-2014 school year -- see http://www.cps-k12.org/schoo…/high-schools/new-aiken-program -- to house both Carpe Diem and what is now called "Aiken New Tech" high school (formerly known as Aiken High).
The "New Tech" curriculum concept now used at Aiken (grades 7-12) is a project-based instruction platform that dozens of public high schools and junior high schools around the USA have adopted, including CPS's Aiken HIgh and Winton Woods High which serves nearby Greenhills and Forest Park in Cincinnati's northern suburbs. According to the New Tech websiste -- see http://www.newtechnetwork.org/schools -- the New Tech concept is also used by public high schools and/or junior high schools in Ohio in Akron (at Buchtel High School), in Zanesville, in Cleveland (at Facing History New Tech High School), and in Van Wert.
As far as I know, the Enquirer has never done an article to look at the question of how the project-based Aiken New Tech junior/senior high school (grades 7-12) is doing since it opened in 2013. However, based on the publicly available data on schooldigger.com (an online database that publishes information on public schools across the USA), Aiken's enrollment jumped dramatically from October 2013 to October 2014, from 337 students in October 2013 when the new building opened up to 567 in October 2014. [2015 data should be available in a few weeks, because for funding and comparison purposes the State of Ohio pegs enrollment data to October 15 every school year.
AIKEN NEW TECH'S ENROLLMENT GREW 68% IN ONE YEAR, SO IS CARPE DIEM EXPANDING TO DOWNTOWN OR IS AIKEN GROWING SO MUCH FASTER THAN CARPE DIEM THAT CARPE DIEM NOW NEEDS TO MOVE OUT OF THE AIKEN BUILDING?
This concept of the CPS-sponsored Carpe Diem Charter school opening a location at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center may turn out to great idea -- again, IF this school is integrated instead of segregated as Carpe Diem is today.
For a small junior/senior school like this one (244 student, according to this article), clearly it would be a big asset for the students to go to a school that is located inside an exciting Downtown museum that's located on the riverfront next to the Bengals practice field and to the riverfront parks. Sounds great: an attractive, wholesome environment for teen-agers, with the new GE building located just one block away.
But since the publicly available data suggests that, back in College Hill, Aiken High is growing very fast, and it's likely that Carpe Diem's enrollment is *not* growing this fast (again enrollment at Aiken was up 68% in one year), I think the Enquirer needs to dig a little deeper. Perhaps the *real* reason that Carpe Diem administrators need to move this school to the Freedom Center is that there is no longer room for this school at CPS's apparently fast-growing Aiken New Tech High School.
Again, I don't have all the answer to these questiosn, but I think the Enquirer owe
No more charter schools without a significant increase in accountability and oversight! They must meet or exceed standards of the the present public school system which very few or none of them do.
Yes, lets go ahead and ruin the Banks, while we are at it. Lets get bunch of trouble maker teenagers in the area to break into cars, steal stuff, jump people and everything else they do at CPS schools. Yes, the museum does not like all the white yuppie people around and want to stack their grounds too. You all can go and fudge yourselves.
No new charter schools. Not enough accountabIity.
Until the state increases charterschool oversight no new charter schools school open.