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A look at the top and bottom LAUSD elementary schools in the CORE...
To help understand the California Office to Reform Education’s (CORE) new school accountability system, LA School Report recently logged and listed all 714 LA Unified schools by their score top to...
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Top 10 LA high schools in national poll include 4 charters, 3 magnets; LACES...
Top-ranked Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies In the extensive U.S. News & World Report ranking of all the public high schools in the country, LA’s top 10 include four independent charters,...
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LAUSD magnets outscore charters on state tests
(Credit: LAUSD) By Barbara Jones Los Angeles Unified’s popular magnet centers and schools outscored independent charters by double-digit margins on California’s new state assessments, and also beat...
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‘The data is miserable’: LAUSD board members rake academic officer over the...
“We have a crisis with our youngsters,” board member Richard Vladovic told the district’s chief academic officer. LA Unified’s chief academic officer came before board members Tuesday with an...
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Test Scores Will Matter Less for a School’s Fate… In Four Years
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a measure (SB 1458) which curtails the role of test scores in calculating a school’s Academic Performance Index (or API). Right now, API scores are based...
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Mediator Named in Deadlock Over Teacher Evaluations
Mediator Don Raska has been appointed to try to help resolve the teacher evaluation negotiations between LAUSD and the teachers union (UTLA), according to a UTLA newsletter. The October 19th issue of...
View ArticleMorning Read: Soft Teacher Evaluation Deal?
Los Angeles Teachers’ Evaluation Victory Bucks a Trend Los Angeles teacher appraisals won’t be based on ‘value added,’ increasingly being used across the country. Now a key question is how test scores...
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Study: Test Scores Help ID Good Teachers
Source: Gates Foundation A study released Tuesday by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation showed that the controversial method of measuring teachers’ effectiveness with students’ test scores can be...
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Reaction Roundup: Teacher Evaluation Agreement*
What’s next for the much-discussed teacher evaluation deal that was ratified by classroom teachers earlier this month? The agreement is being complimented by some groups and criticized by others. The...
View ArticleMorning Read: Teachers Union Slams Deasy’s 30% Plan
Deasy Wants 30% of Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that as much as 30% of a teacher’s evaluation will be based on student test scores, setting...
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Slim Gains, Slight Drop in English for LA Unified in CA Test Scores
Scores from statewide California tests taken by LA Unified students in the 2012-2013 academic year were only slightly higher than results from the year before. While the gains were more modest than in...
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API Tests for LA Unified Improve Slightly, State Scores Fall
Los Angeles Unified made a marginal improvement on California standards tests while for the first time in at least a decade, the state score dropped, according to results released today by the state...
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LA Unified Has Slight Rise in SAT Takers, Average Scores
The number of LA Unified 12th-graders taking the SAT test rose last year, along with the District’s average test scores on critical reading, mathematics, and writing portions of the exam, according to...
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CA teachers view critical thinking most important for college readiness
In a new survey of 1,000 California teachers, a plurality of instructors thinks that it’s most important to develop critical thinking skills as preparation for college and career. The least number...
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LAUSD using new, wider approach in assessing school success
LA Unified is among nine California school districts that are using a new index to gauge the success of schools, applying a mix of academic achievement as well as social, emotional and cultural...
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