Holy smokes! I guess if you respond to a DOE email and include tons of people on the response, you might just get a response. I got real live actual information regarding Smarter Balanced without making four mortgage payments! State Rep. John Kowalko was included on this as well. Below is the email from Alison May at the Delaware Department of Education with answers to all my questions (just for this request, they know I still have TONS of other questions). I did take the liberty of doing some minor edits by adding a colon after each of my questions instead of the comma Alison May used. As well, her answers had red, so I will do that which got lost in the copy. I just wanted to make it prettier, but if anyone wants to see the REAL email, let me know.
From: May Alison <alison.may@doe.k12.de.us>
To: “‘kevino3670@yahoo.com'” <kevino3670@yahoo.com>; Kowalko John <john.kowalko@state.de.us>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 4:22 PM
Subject: FOIA response
Mr. Ohlandt and Rep. Kowalko,
This is in response to your recent requests for information. Quoted below are Mr. Ohlandt’s original questions with respective answers in red.
1) I would like to see a list of the individuals from Delaware who participated in the Smarter Balanced Achievement Level Setting. This would include both the In-Person Panel and the Cross-Grade Review Committee: The below spreadsheet lists the Delaware in-person participants. Also, it identifies the cross-grade review committee participant from DE —-this process was also called Vertical Articulation Committee (VAC). This was Karen Clifton.
The following represented Delaware as in-person panelists. TBL indicates the person served as a table facilitator. VAC indicates the person also participated on a vertical articulation committee.
2) As well, I would like to know who from Delaware represented the final achievement level settings: The state representatives participated in reviewing and making recommendations, which also took into consideration the online recommendations, etc. There was then a final cross-grade or vertical process on the last day to make final recommendations from this group to pass forward. These recommendations also went through external review, TAC, and Governing States chiefs for discussions. Then they went to states for additional discussions and possible adoption. Karen Clifton from Delaware stayed for the final day of achievement-level setting. Carolyn Lazar of DDOE’s Assessment Office also was there for observation/auditing the process. Former Secretary Mark Murphy participated in the Governing States discussions.
3) Which higher education leaders participated in the 11th grade achievement level setting: Faith Muirhead
4) And anyone from Delaware who served on SBAC’s Technical Advisory Committee: There were no Delaware reps on Smarter’s TAC—this is not designed to be a state representative group but a professional group of assessment authorities.
5) And if anyone from Delaware participated in the audit process for this: Carolyn Lazar participated as a state observer/auditor for the process. Each state was allowed to send one representative for this.
Alison May
Public information officer
Delaware Department of Education
401 Federal Street, Suite #2
Dover, DE 19901-3639
I do know or have heard of some of these teachers and general public participants in this. Yvonne Johnson is THE Yvonne Johnson. There can only be one! At least on the Delaware PTA. I know Yvonne was involved in many facets of the Smarter Balanced Assessment in Delaware as it was being developed, but don’t signal this as Yvonne has gone DOE on us. She does not like this test AT ALL! Don’t forget she was one of the major voices for opt-out and House Bill 50.
Some of these teachers are or have been involved with Rodel and the Vision Coalition of Student Success 2012, er uhm, 2015, er uhm. 2025. The bottom line, we will all be dead and Dr. Herdman’s great grandson will be talking about Vision 2105. And Alison:
THIS WAS NOT A FOIA REQUEST! IT WAS ONLY A QUESTION! BUT THANKS FOR ANSWERING!
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