Just over half of public school students who took the state’s standardized English Language Arts test performed at grade level, while only four in 10 are proficient in math, scores that represent a slow upward trend over the past four years, according to data released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.
“We don’t have high quality preschool available, the same supports that you see in the affluent, suburban and private schools, you don’t see in the public schools serving poor kids,” said UCLA education professor Pedro Noguera.“No one ever says, ‘Wow, we should do for the kids in Compton what we do for the kids in Brentwood,’” where a plethora of expensive private schools with small class sizes serve the wealthy, Noguera said.
The district has implemented a program called the Academic English Mastery Program at 110 schools with the highest concentration of black students, Yoshimoto-Towery said. The goal of the program is to target students for whom English is their first language, but the English spoken at home may be different from the “academic English” that exists in schools and on tests, she said.
One goal of the UCLA report is to provide the data that would support state and federal legislation to address needs outside of the classroom that will help kids learn, said UCLA professor and report co-author Tyrone Howard.To do that, he said, lawmakers will have to overcome the discomfort of targeting resources to a specific ethnic or racial group, and instead treat students who are not meeting standards like any other group that needs additional help.
Sad to hear, I don't believe spending more money is the answer. Where and or who is the education money going to?
hiltonholloway *Maths
Shhhhhhh national lausdOGR is going to ask for more money (more taxes).
Our lord & saviour GavinNewsom will solve all our problems once the electricity comes back on that he caused
All children left behind, your grade school teachers work for the federal government. federalfail
And this is news ? You just figured it out?
Sad. But on the plus side they know how to protest within guidance
More than likely because most of them are immigrants that have not been vetted properly for speaking english. Something that needs addressing.
Typical of southern states.
Need more parents to be Tiger Moms
This is the same in CA and the whole country JAPAN and CHINA know how to TEACH their STUDENTs in the USA they are more worried about making sure the student is at peace with their ZEN
Why are California schools in such a mess?
Perhaps the time has come to re-evaluate the teachers’ credentials. Some teachers may have been straight “A” students but if they can’t teach, they should be working elsewhere. The Silicon Valley is one area where they can make a lot of money babysitting for the rich.
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In other words all the bond issues and taxes for schools isn’t worth a darn. So much for union. So much for the school board. And so much for the quality of teachers.
I wonder why🙄
All children left behind is the goal of your federally controlled local Independent school districts
HUh? You've known this for decades!!! Check out the CDE website!
Gee i wonder why? Could it be importing millions of uneducated then inserting them into the school system? Could that have something to do with it? Nah, it is just white peoples fault.
Troubling? It's an absolute disgrace. The entire enterprise is not fit for purpose.
It’s the republican party’s dream scenario....
Obama promised us, that as POTUS, he'd make sure that they were all learning English. Don't think that once he got elected he ever mentioned that again.
Because most teachers are liberals who have no interest in the kids education. Teachers seem more interested in hating Trump or having sex with kids. See how democrats destroy everything they touch?
Because the schools are filled with a bunch of Mexican kids who can’t read or speak English for shit
Maybe they could still be processed into Soylent Green.
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