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Dayton Public Schools Faces Staffing Instability, Reconfiguration

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The Dayton Public School district is in the middle of a few major transitions: the district is facing failing grades from the state, and the possibility of a takeover if the district doesn’t improve test scores over three years. The district’slatest test scores were among the worst in the state, although there’s alsoa debate ragingabout whether 2014-2015 tests should even be considered. DPS is also rearranging a number of school buildings to create new junior high schools,a process it’s calling “reconfiguration.”

And in February the superintendent and treasurer found outtheir contracts may not be renewedby the school board.

WYSO talked toJeremy Kelley, who covers education for the Dayton Daily News and Cox Media Group.

 

 

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Lewis Wallace comes to WYSO from the Pritzker Journalism Fellowship at WBEZ in Chicago, where he reported on the environment, technology, science and economics. Prior to going down the public radio rabbit hole, he was a community organizer and producer for a multimedia project about youth and policing in Chicago. Originally from Ann Arbor, Mich., Lewis spent many years as a freelance writer, anti-oppression trainer, barista and sex educator in Chicago and in Oakland. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Northwestern University, and he has expanded his journalism training through the 2013 Metcalf Fellowship for Environmental Journalism and the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources.