History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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L.A. schools doing better
- 09-14-2010
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By Howard Blume and Teresa Watanabe/Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles schools have shown marked improvement in their students' test scores, with gains so strong at five campuses that officials have removed them from a list of schools that could have been taken over because of poor performance. The Los Angeles Unified School District had planned to offer Los Angeles and Huntington Park high schools, Harte and Audubon middle schools, and Woodcrest Elementary in Westmont to groups inside or outside the system to help boost student achievement. But that plan was superseded by Monday's release of school rankings on the state Academic Performance Index. Overall, California students increased their scores on the index by 13 points, according to data from the state Department of Education. Better gains were turned in by Latino students, low-income students and black students, resulting in a small narrowing of the achievement gap separating them from their white and Asian peers. (more…)
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