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State officials withhold charter school data
- 11-01-2010
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Blog by Louis Freedberg/California Watch
The Los Angeles Unified School District has been forced to file a California Public Records Act request with the California Department of Education to get test scores of students at about 150 charter schools authorized to operate within the district's borders. But State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, citing the state Education Code, rebuffed the request LA schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines submitted just a day earlier. Cortines made it clear that he was seeking "depersonalized" scores – scores with students' names removed. Overall test scores of charter schools are already available through the state's STAR (Standardized Testing and Reporting) program. What has not been publicly available are the test scores of individual students, even with students' names removed. (more…)
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