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School board approves value-added contract

  • 11-10-2010
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Blog by Jason Song/Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Board of Education unanimously approved a contract Tuesday with a company that will analyze teachers' effectiveness in raising students' standardized test scores. The agreement with the University of Wisconsin Value Added Research Center, which does similar work for New York City public schools, could cost about $1.5 million. The first phase of the three-year project should be about $125,000, and school district officials have discussed finding outside funding sources to pay for most of the costs. (more…)

Also: Los Angeles Daily News

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