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CTA cites QEIA’s big impact on schools
- 12-01-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Over the past three years, API scores have increased significantly for the bottom 20 percent of California schools, despite ongoing budget cuts. But they’ve risen even higher overall in those lower-decile schools that have gotten their share of a seven-year, $3 billion program that the California Teachers Association exacted in a court settlement with Gov. Schwarzenegger over a Proposition 98 dispute in 2006. In some of those schools, the money also has inspired other changes – in parent involvement, student engagement, and teacher leadership – that are important but harder to measure.The Quality Education Investment Act, or QEIA, required that the recipient 488 schools use the extra money – from $500 annually per student in K-3 to $1,000 per student in grades 9-12 – to hire counselors and extra teachers to lower class sizes and to spend money on teacher training. As reported in Lessons From the Classroom, the results at the end of the first three years of the program appear impressive. The average API scores of QEIA schools rose 63 points, compared with 49 points for the non-selected deciles 1 and 2 schools. (more…)
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