Education Law

This week at the CPE

Want a little good news? Our friends at the  Center for Public Education regularly publishes “success stories” - stories of school districts raising achievement, with helpful lessons you can apply to your own district. This week, we’re featuring California’s San Jose Unified School District. In 2001, only 23 percent of its Hispanic students graduated with the requirements needed to enroll in one of California’s four-year public colleges. This was monumental, considering that the district’s Hispanic student population was a little more than 50 percent of the overall student population. With statistics as dismal as these, what was the district to do? Why, raise expectations, of course! And it’s worked. Read the story, called Helping All Students Graduate, to see what they did to raise student achievement, and graduate all students college-ready.

And BoardBuzz wants to remind you not to forget to look to the Center when education’s in the news. The recent announcement of the “Race to the Top” funds focused on four main reforms: pay-for-performance plans, charter schools, common standards, and collecting longitudinal data (BoardBuzz covered that last week). Guess what?  The Center already has reports on three of these areas.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on July 31, 2009 (boomark / email).