Mr. Mark Schweitzer

Mark Schweitzer, Summit Academy Management's vice president of marketing and public relations, said the Ohio Achievement Test is unfair to children with disabilities, who make up 98 percent of Summit's students.

"Using that to measure these kids is really biased and unfair," Schweitzer said.
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Schweitzer said the problem is that the measure still depends on achievement test scores.

"The value-added helps, but you're still using a flawed instrument," he said.

Summit Academy is hoping the legislature will consider granting a waiver to House Bill 79 for schools with large populations of special needs students, Schweitzer said.
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Mark Schweitzer, Summit Academy Management's vice president of marketing and public relations, said the Ohio Achievement Test is unfair to children with disabilities, who make up 98 percent of Summit's students.

"Using that to measure these kids is really biased and unfair," Schweitzer said.
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Schweitzer said the problem is that the measure still depends on achievement test scores.

"The value-added helps, but you're still using a flawed instrument," he said.

Summit Academy is hoping the legislature will consider granting a waiver to House Bill 79 for schools with large populations of special needs students, Schweitzer said.
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Oh please Mr. Schweitzer, kids with disabilities get modified and accommodated testing environments and if there is no way in the world that your students with disabilities can't pass the test there's something called "Alternative Assessment".

"It's not been a problem," said Mark Schweitzer, director of public relations and marketing for Summit Academy Community Schools in Akron.The nonprofit, private organization operates an elementary and middle school on Market Avenue and secondary school on Cleveland Avenue in Canton.

Schweitzer said the Summit Academy used to get more requests for public records "because of the adversarial relationship with various political groups with an ax to grind.Now it's not as big a problem as it used to be.

"Charters are all public schools," he said.

Mark Schweitzer with Summit Academy says, "They require certain types of reasoning, infer things from the questions even with accommodations.It's the nature of the test.When you use those types of questions it goes right to the heart of our children's disabilities."

Schweitzer believes the state needs to apply different criteria to schools centered around a special needs curriculum

There are three summit academies here in the Youngstown area, but the other two, the middle and secondary schools will remain open.

And summit officials hopes this gives them options.

Schweitzer says, "We have structural administrative options we can do so we feel confident the children attending this elementary school will have a summit academy to attend next year."

Mark Schweitzer, Summit Academy Management's vice president of marketing and public relations, said the Ohio Achievement Test is unfair to children with disabilities, who make up 98 percent of Summit's students.

''Using that to measure these kids is really biased and unfair,'' Schweitzer said.
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Schweitzer said the problem is that the measure still depends on achievement test scores.

''The value-added helps, but you're still using a flawed instrument,'' he said.

Summit Academy is hoping the legislature will consider granting a waiver to House Bill 79 for schools with large populations of special needs students, Schweitzer said.

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