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Under No Child Left Behind, state seeking results
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Bill Evers on 4.28.2005
For five years, California's attempt to fix failing schools was confused and in disarray. But the federal No Child Left Behind Act has a timetable and sanctions that hold the state's feet to the fire, and this has forced California to make a long-overdue change. State officials now have adopted an academically focused school-improvement method that should work to rescue failing schools. The state and its school districts need to persist in this effort.
Local District Should Take Lead in State Funding Crisis
Submitted by Menaka Fernando on 4.18.2005
April 18 -- For meaningful strides to be made in California's ailing K-12 public education system, higher-income districts -- such as Santa Monica's -- must lead the way to help lower-income schools, state legislators and education experts said Saturday.
The Black and Hispanic Graduation Problem
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 4.4.2005
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and state education officials are wiping egg off their faces. O’Connell’s Department of Education has claimed that 87 percent of California high school students graduated in 2002. A recent Harvard study, however, finds that only 71 percent of California high schoolers graduated in that year. It also reports that only about six out of 10 black and Hispanic high-school students received their diploma.
The Future of California's K-12 Schools – RAND Community Forum (pdf)
Submitted on 4.1.2005
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