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"It's All About Your Zip Code"

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UCLA Report Finds Agreement Among National Data, State Data, and Parents: Where Children Live Can Determine School Opportunities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

                                                         MEDIA ADVISORY

 

 

"It's All About Your Zip Code" 

UCLA Report Finds Agreement Among National Data, State Data, and Parents: Where Children Live Can Determine School Opportunities

In California, schools serving primarily Latino and African American students, on average, receive the poorest resources in a state that provides among the fewest educational opportunities in the nation.

 

WHAT: Tele-press conference to discuss the findings of the annual California Educational Opportunity Report study by UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) and UC ACCORD.

 

Drawing on the most recent state data along with public perceptions gathered from a series of focus groups of diverse California parents, the latest edition of the California Educational Opportunity Report examines the relationship among educational goals, achievement, and conditions in California’s public schools. This report:

 

• Explores the gap between achievement in California schools and a) the aspirations of California’s students and parents, as well as b) the future demands of California’s economy;

• Investigates the conditions of California’s public schools, highlighting both a lack of quality overall and inequality between different groups of schools;

• Identifies the increased likelihood that California schools will fail to meet federal accountability standards.

 

WHO: John Rogers, Director of UCLA IDEA

 

WHEN: Monday, February 23, 2009, 9 a.m. PST

Please call in to hear the audio, and log onto the web presentation.

 

Call: 1-800-762-8779 and ask to enter the UCLA Press Conference

 

Web Presentation: 

http://connect.actconferencing.com  • Passcode: 676258570

 

Contact: Arif Shaikh

310-267-4408 office / 310-351-3931 cell / shaikh@gseis.ucla.edu

 

For more information and to obtain copies of the full state report and additional reports searchable by individual high schools, Congressional District, Senate District, and Assembly District, please visit:

www.EdOpp.org

 

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