NEARLY HALF OF SCHOOLS IN STATE MISS MARK.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Staff Writer Nearly half of schools statewide, including those in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and the rest of the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , failed to meet new federal benchmarks in English and math, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. test results released Friday. Statewide, 54.9 percent of schools achieved adequate progress toward the federal goal of having every student proficient in English and math by 2014. That compares to 32 percent in 2002, the state Department of Education said. In the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) , just under half of the 650 schools districtwide met their academic targets, set by the federal No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 and reported in the Adequate Yearly Progress Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically. Report. Seventeen high schools and 297 elementary schools achieved their goals while only one middle school, Arroyo Seco Arroyo Seco (Spanish: "dry creek") may refer to:
``I feel strongly this is an indication for us how we can strengthen our study skills for youngsters,'' said Jerry Horowitz, principal of Byrd Middle School, which was deemed educationally inadequate after the campus missed the mark by just a bit. ``I can assure you we can do better for next year.'' The Adequate Yearly Progress Report was released Friday along with school-by-school results for the California Achievement Tests, a new basic skills exam, and the California Standards Tests in math, English, science and social science. The federal benchmarks demand that at least 13.6 percent of elementary and middle school students show proficiency in English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. arts and 16 percent in math. For high schoolers, the target is 11.2 percent proficiency in English and 9.6 percent in math. Also, 95 percent of all pupils at a campus - including English language learners and special education students - must take the test. While LAUSD exceeded the district targets of 12 percent for English and 12.8 percent for math, the benchmarks were not met by all categories of students, leaving the district deficient. Disabled students scored below the benchmark. ``The students with disabilities we knew would be a challenge,'' said LAUSD's Esther Wong Esther Wong was born August 13, 1917 in Shanghai, China, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. She was a punk rock and New Wave music promoter. She got started as the owner of "Madame Wong's" clubs, and when Polynesian bands weren't filling her restaurants, she decided to try , assistant superintendent of planning, assessment and research. ``We have a ways to go there.'' The benchmarks will be adjusted gradually to require higher percentages of students to achieve proficiency, with the goal of having all students mastering their grade level content standards by 2014. High-poverty schools that fail to meet the federal academic goals two years in a row would be required to allow their students to transfer to high-performing campuses or provide them with tutoring services. If the schools continue to underperform year after year, the federal government can impose a range of sanctions from restructuring the campus and replacing administrators to contracting with an outside agency to manage the school. Of the state's high-poverty schools, 49 percent hit the target, compared to 22 percent the previous year. In the LAUSD, 99 schools face the prospect of transferring their students to better schools or providing them with tutoring services. Of those district schools, 16 are in the San Fernando Valley. Three - Byrd Middle School in Sun Valley, Kennedy High in Granada Hills and San Fernando Elementary - joined the ranks of failing schools Friday based on their inability to meet benchmarks in English and math. While some principals greeted their ranking as a challenge, others cried foul over the list that slaps a label on a campus whose gains can be overshadowed if just one category of students misses the benchmark. ``I don't think anyone likes a label put on them, especially when they don't deserve it,'' said Monroe High School For other uses, see James Monroe High School. Monroe High School may refer to:
Lisa Mascaro, (818) 713-3761 lisa.mascaro(at)dailynews.com SCHOOLS IN JEOPARDY Here is a list of high-poverty Valley schools that will face a range of sanctions if they fail to make adequate progress two years in a row. Byrd Middle School Fulton Middle School Fulton Middle School is a school in Fountain Valley, California, in the US, serving grades 6-8. The principal is Chris Christensen, and the assistant is Chris Mullen. Kennedy High School Maclay Middle School Monroe High Mount Gleason Middle Mulholland Middle North Hollywood High Olive Vista Middle San Fernando Elementary San Fernando High Sepulveda Middle Sharp Avenue School Sun Valley Middle School Sun Valley Middle School is located in Sun Valley, a section of Los Angeles, California, and is part of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In April 1948, school officials announced that "the most charming of all the new junior high schools" in the Los Angeles system would CAPTION(S): box Box: SCHOOLS IN JEOPARDY (see text) |
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