Even if you do not live in California, this website should help you raise a lot of questions about your local school district and how it is being administered. I will be a regular visitor to this site.
Website: http://www.schoolwisepress.com/index.html
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OUR MISSION
Our mission is to help parents become school-smart and to assist education leaders in making that possible.
OUR GOALS
1. We are focused on helping districts and state departments of education report their schools’ results. The annual school accountability report is where education leaders have traditionally reported results, but often ineffectively. Our goal is to enable our clients to be more effective when reporting results, and see a return on their investment in the public’s knowledge of their schools.
2. We are investing in raising the standards for accountability reporting. This is a young discipline that would benefit from improved standards for design, data, and statistical analysis.
3. We are enabling our clients to meet the higher requirements of state and federal law, and do so economically.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
The public’s support of its schools has to rest on something more substantial than faith. One of the pillars of public support, in our opinion, is clear information about schools themselves. Despite laws that intended to bring school information into the light of day, much still remains in the dark. As a result, school information is unfortunately often hard to get, tough to find, or impossible to interpret without a bevy of experts. We hope to turn school data into meaningful information that parents can use.
We believe that we can help parents participate in school life and the education of their children by creating and distributing information that clarifies how schools differ and what students’ test scores really mean. Reporting results clearly and candidly is one step in that direction.
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