Michael Rothman

Michael began his education career two decades ago in community-service learning before working in charter school oversight for the Massachusetts Department of Education. He founded and ran the Project for School Innovation, a nonprofit that shared charter and district practices. In New York, Michael worked for the City Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools as a leadership coach and transfer school specialist. In 2010, he founded Eskolta, a nonprofit that has worked with more than 50 New York City public schools to re-engage overage, under credited students by deeply transforming their experiences in schools.

AAPF18 Sessions: 

Accountability Systems for Alternative High Schools

Eskolta and the Center for American Progress produced a report reviewing the innovative efforts of New York City to reimagine accountability metrics for schools serving overage, under-credited youth. This was then supported through analysis of seven years of data on a single cohort of 70,000 New York City high school students. In this session, we will share our findings and recommendations, and facilitate questions around why graduation, testing, and climate measures need to be rethought and the implications for carrying out this work. Accountability is too often discussed only in relation to changing cut scores, but in fact this is about rethinking methods of calculation, attribution, comparison, and cohorting students.