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Calif. schools make gains on state academic index
- 09-14-2010
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By Terence Chea/San Jose Mercury News
Despite state budget cuts to education, California students made gains for the eighth straight year on a closely watched measure of academic progress, but fewer schools reached the federal government's rising benchmarks, according to a state report released Monday. The state Department of Education's Accountability Progress Report found that 46 percent of schools reached the target score of 800 on the state 1,000-point Academic Performance Index in 2009-2010, up from 36 percent the previous year. The index, or API, combines results from the various standardized tests to give lawmakers, educators and parents an easy way to evaluate individual schools, as well as the state school system as a whole. The report found the statewide API score increased 13 points to 767 and the achievement gap among different racial and ethnic groups narrowed slightly. The average score was 685 for blacks, 715 for Latinos, 838 for whites and 889 for Asians. (more…)
Also: San Francisco Chronicle
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