It is refreshing that grass roots push-back by students' parents is taking place against the progressive socialists, with their collective agenda and ideology have driven the California's school system and country toward collapse.
Lack of Education Transparency in California Hurting Students
Source: Lisa Snell, "California Needs to Measure Student Academic Progress," Reason Foundation, March 5, 2015.
March 24, 2015
Sweeping reforms have taken place in national education, such as Common Core. However, basic transparency and accountability is obviously not a priority, as a group of California parents dealing with a low-performing school demonstrates, writes Lisa Snell of the Reason Foundation.
The parents of Palm Lane created a petition to turn the school into a charter school. The school board rejected their petition. The California school has consistently performed poorly or has lacked accountability:
- Only 38 percent of students are currently proficient in reading.
- In 2014, the state revised its pilot Common Core assessments that granted them with a federal waiver exempting it from being graded on reading and math achievement based on the new assessments. California is now seeking a federal testing waiver, which would allow schools to use graduation rates, attendance rates and rates of participation as measures of student achievement.
- This lack of accountability is not helping students: In 2013, California's fourth grade students scored below the national average in both reading and math. On the reading assessment, 41 states outscored California, and 42 states outscored California in math.
- Lack of transparency has also prevented parents from evaluating school quality.
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