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Failing Our Future: The Holes in California's School Accountability System and How to Fix Them
PRI Study
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Rachel Chaney
1.16.2007
Approximately $1.25 billion in state public education funding provided to schools to help improve student academic performance has yielded little if any academic improvement, even though these schools met the state Academic Performance Index (API) requirements to exit the improvement program as successful. This analysis comes just as the state is set to carry out the agreed upon terms of last year’s SB 1133 (Torlakson) and pour nearly $3 billion more into a similar program. This finding is included in a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California. Failing our Future: The Holes in California’s School Accountability System and How to Fix Them exposes the flaws in California’s school accountability system, the API, and makes recommendations to improve it. The study, co-authored by James S. Lanich, Ph.D., president of California Business for Education Excellence and Lance T. Izumi, director of Education Studies at PRI, can be downloaded free of charge at here and at www.cbee.org. Read Factsheet
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