Let’s Change the Way this Story Ends
June 28, 2010 at 11:47 pm arunramanathan Leave a comment
Today we released our inaugural Equity Alert. This Alert highlights California’s newest statewide rankings and uncovers all-too familiar achievement gaps. The state’s 2009 Base Annual Performance Index (API) data and statewide rankings reveal that race and class continue to play a substantial role in shaping educational opportunity, and that systemic inequity is pervasive in California’s schools. The report outlines actions state policymakers and education leaders can take to address these patterns of inequity. These actions include: implementing policies to identify, recruit and retain highly-effective teachers and principals; ensuring that high-need students have access to the supports and interventions they need from the earliest grades; and providing additional resources to the state’s lowest performing schools in exchange for greater accountability.
In many ways this is a familiar story on a large scale. The sad part of this story is the millions of individual stories of lost opportunities and lives that underlie this data. Those stories, each individual one, is why this data must change.
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