School Wise Press

10/14/2012

When parents gather school information to make decisions for their kids, the conversations are serious.

10/13/2012

The Calif. Dept. of Education has released API results. Smart insights from Edsource are worth reading: http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/california-test-results-on-the-up-and-up-partly/21176 #.UHn4xa7z6xM

California’s public schools continued to show gains on the Academic Performance Index (API), a measure of how well students do on the California Standards Tests and, in high school, on the exit exam. For the first time since the testing program began in 1999, a majority of schools reached or exceede...

09/27/2012

Gov. Brown has signed into law a new way to define the Academic Performance Index. But it won’t take effect until 2016.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-brown-bills-20120927,0,6744403.story

California's key measure of public school quality will be redefined to lessen the impact of standardized test scores under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown .

09/27/2012

Trulia's chief economist has some smart ideas about measuring the popularity of school districts. It's migration in versus out. Education Week is where you can find an overview.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/District_Dossier/2012/08/charting_the_flow_of_students_.html

Education Week reporter Christina A. Samuels follows the latest developments in the nation's school districts and digs into the issues, successes, and controversies surrounding education leadership and management.

09/21/2012

School Wise Press gets the conversation started with a school-level picture of the achievement gap. What does it all mean?

http://www.slideshare.net/smrees68/measuring-the-achievement-gap-14376458

Measuring the Achievement Gap

09/21/2012

Advocates of good government are evaluating public agencies’ Web sites, including those of California school districts. They call themselves the Sunshine Review, and they are praising districts like Fresno USD and Oakland USD for sharing key info clearly.

http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Evaluation_of_California_school_district_websites

This page captures a snapshot of the information contributed bySunshine Reviewusers after they've studied the information made available onCalifornia school district websites.

09/21/2012

ALERT: CDE leader Rachel Perry presented a new view about the future of accountability reporting to the State Board of Education on July 13. This could mean big changes in what gets reported, and in who does the reporting.

Read more: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr12/documents/jul12item05.doc

Listen to it: http://www3.cde.ca.gov/video/sbe/sbemeeting20120718.asx

09/21/2012

Could a middle school with an API of 851 remain stuck in Year 5 of Program Improvement? Take a look at Martin Luther King Middle School in Oceanside USD, and see for yourself what’s wrong with the federal definition of “progress.”

http://oceanside.schoolwisepress.com/home/site.aspx?entity=21822&year=2011&locale=en-US

This page provides links to a series of accountability reports about the state of our school for the school year(s) listed below. Under California law, as well as the No Child Left Behind Act, school districts must distribute a report card to show how every school and the district as a whole are per...

09/17/2012

Parents need a comprehensive story about every school... School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs) can get it to them!

09/14/2012

California requests an NCLB waiver http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/el/le/yr12ltr0615.asp

Letter to Assistant Secretary Deborah Delisle requesting a waiver of provisions of sections of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.