California Department of Education
This week, in classrooms throughout the state, students in 2nd through 11th grade are finishing up taking the annual STAR Test. It’s a standardized, multiple part, fill-in-the-bubble exam designed to gauge how much of the state’s education standards all public school students have learned since the...
Some East Bay school districts just can't seem to catch a break- like Hayward Unified.
About three weeks ago, the California Department of Education issued a list of the state's 188 "Persistently Low-Achieving Schools". All three of Hayward's high schools made that dreaded list, and are now...
Recently, the California Department of Education released a list of the state's 188 lowest achieving schools. Five of the schools listed were in Oakland, and they could face dramatic consequences - like losing their principals and administrative staff. To determine where a school stands,...
What a difference two days makes- for some local schools.
This past Monday, the California Department of Education released a statewide list of 188 "Persistently Low-Achieving Schools"- a requirement for the State to be eligible for Federal stimulus money meant to revamp the nation's most...
A new computer system, designed to track California's 6 million students individually is so defective, the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O'Connell, has all but shut down the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System for two months while they try to overhaul it....
The first charter school in the state opened in 1992. Today, more than 800 public charter schools are operating in California, and there are more than 5,000 charter schools nationwide. Many people say that charter schools are one of the answers to school reform---and in fact, the...
Today as part of our ongoing education series, we’ll visit Oakland Technical High School. On academic par with some of the best high schools in the Bay Area, Oakland Tech already offers teens in the East Bay rigorous academic programs in its school-to-career academies, just what the President is...
This week, 12 out of 525 continuation high schools throughout the state were crowned "2010 Model Continuation High Schools" by State Superindendent of Public Instruction, Jack O'Connell. The Model Continuation High School Recognition Program is a partnership of the California Department of...
Carletta Sue Kay
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