Ed Source – Seth Litt
“Last fall I went with a group of parent leaders to a State Board of Education meeting in Sacramento, where much of the discussion centered on plans to do away with the current system for ranking California schools, the API score. The parents and I were troubled by what we heard. The California Department of Education appears eager to move as far as possible from any sort of results-driven accountability system for schools. Their current plan is to replace the API with a large “dashboard” that will provide lots of data, mostly about what schools are doing rather than how much students are learning. Under this plan, there will be no overall ratings given to schools, and student achievement will be simply one of many factors without any special weight or consideration.”(more)