The Office is responsible for:
- Identifying valid and reliable measures of performance used to establish goals at the educator, school, network, and district levels
- Providing leadership in schools, networks, and Central Office departments with access to timely and accurate school and educator performance data and analysis
- Compiling academic performance data and creating a repository for relevant district data in collaboration with other CPS departments
- Calculating accountability metrics, key performance indicators, and other academic performance measures used throughout the district, such as REACH for teachers, principal evaluation, and school quality ratings
- Calculating end-of-year performance ratings for schools, principals, and educators in alignment with local policies, such as the state statute, such as the Performance Evaluation Reform Act
- Managing the district’s research-practice partnerships, external research review processes, and data-sharing agreements
- Increasing transparency within CPS and to the public through clear reporting of performance data