History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
State’s hardly ‘persistently lowest list’
- 02-03-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Most of the 96 schools that the state has designated among the 5 percent “persistently lowest performing” shouldn’t be on the list. Yet they could qualify for the $69 million that the Department of Education has allotted California for schools to turn themselves around. That’s the conclusion of Doug McRae, a retired test publisher, occasional TOP-Ed contributor, regular attendee of State School Board meetings, and whiz with a spreadsheet. He and others urged the State Board to revise the list of schools, but the Board, feeling pressed by a federal deadline, approved it last month. Now, McRae has run the data through to prove his point. Assuming they’ll apply for the money, the schools will be eligible for School Improvement Grants if they agree to one of four turnaround strategies dictated by the feds. There will likely be enough money for about 30 schools to get as much as $2 million each next year. (more...)
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