10 California Schools Run Out of Time to Catch Up: Fate Uncertain (NCLB)

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: 10 Schools Run Out of Time to Catch Up
Nine campuses in L.A. and 1 in Visalia top the No Child Left Behind law's seven-year limit. Their fate is uncertain.

By Duke Helfand and Joel Rubin, Times Staff Writers


The federal No Child Left Behind education law gave schools seven years to meet achievement goals, laying out increasingly dire consequences — including the removal of school staff — for those that fell short.

But now, 10 schools have exceeded that seven-year timetable, leaving them in undefined territory and spawning renewed criticism by education officials about the fairness of the law.

The California Department of Education on Tuesday identified those schools and hundreds of others that have failed to meet testing targets and are at varying stages of the federal timeline for improvement.

In all, 1,772 California public schools — or about 20% of the state's 9,000 campuses — were declared in need of improvement.

Many of the schools fell short of their performance goals because too few of their students reached the proficient level in English or math on standardized tests last year....


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-child21sep21,0,5208363.story?coll=la-home-local

[enlightenment]

1. I'm confused.

How could any school exceed the NCLB seven year provision? It hasn't been in PLACE for seven years!
What am I missing?

[xxqqqzme]

2. it must B 'pre-emptive testing'

The same question popped up for me as well.

[enlightenment]

7. Pre-emptive!

cue snarky laugh from this end!
:rofl:

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Good question -- anybody have an answer? nt

[gratuitous]

3. Okay, this is what the "reformers" wanted

Go ahead, boys. Start closing schools and reassigning staff, just like you said you would. Now, what are you going to do with those thousands of students?

Another triumph for feel-good legislation that disregards real world consequences. I'm so glad the grown-ups are in charge. But why did we put the grown-ups who can't think two hours into the future in charge?

[SoCalDem]

6. Bush:.."Them kid is dumies, anyhow..Let them go to faith based skool..

at least they can lern about Jesus"..

[adigal]

9. "Is our children learning?" GW Bush

in reference to NCLB legislation.

[radwriter0555]

5. So one of bush's options was to close the schools & hand the kids vouchers

to go to private schools. Yeah, a whopping $2,000 to cover private school bills in excess of $10,000 per year. Good idea, george.

The OTHER problem is, there aren't enough private schools with enough spaces to take all these kids.

There never were enough spaces in all the schools, altogether, public AND private.

Another bush failure.

[northzax]

8. in LA?

you might get a decent parochial school for 3-5 grand. if you can get in. no private school will accept vouchers, since they come with the string attached that this is the entire tuition, and you can't find a decent private, independant school in LA for under 18-20 grand.

hell, the prep school I went to, in Portland (a slightly cheaper market) is 18,500 this year.

[radwriter0555]

11. Yes, in reference to parochial schools which are the majority of privates

here in LA. The private non-religious schools start at 15K. The school we'd been in for the past 6 years had 4 spaces available in the kindergarten class with over 300 applicants.

Every other grade up to 6 has usually 2 spaces per year.

I have no idea where they THINK they're going to put all these kids, especially since the public schools are lagging so far behind the privates.

I am pleased to see that my kid's school had pushed her so far ahead of the average; she's in an international school here in France and is doing the same stuff now that she did last year... I don't recall taking physics when I was 11 or 12, this amazes me, but she seems to enjoy it.

[MichiganVote]

10. Its not like this "voucher" system of Bush's won't be another form of

enforced segregation. Can't wait to see the lawsuits on this one.