Results tagged “academic performance”

• UCLA Study: Students from Locke Family of High Schools Show Significant Improvement in Achievement, College-Preparedness

   

  New UCLA study finds that "students attending a cluster of Los Angeles schools overseen by the charter operator Green Dot significantly increased their test scores and persistence in school, and took more challenging courses than comparable peers," according to Education Week.

  From: In the News. Published May 15, 2012. Last Modified May 15, 2012.

• Sacramento Bee Response: A Charter Leader's Take

   

  The Sacramento Bee recently posted a press release on their website from a group attacking CCSA's call for non-renewal for underperforming charter schools.

  From: In the News. Published December 16, 2011. Last Modified December 16, 2011.

• Bayshore Preparatory Increases API Score by a Record 65 Points

   

  Bayshore Preparatory Charter School Executive Director Nancy Spencer announced this week that the school has exceeded all expectations and increased its Academic Performance Index (API) score by a record 65 points.

  From: In the News. Published September 9, 2011. Last Modified September 9, 2011.

• St. HOPE Public School 7 Continues Outstanding Achievement on the CSTs and maintains API

   

  For the seventh consecutive year PS7 showed gains on the CST, both overall and relative to their peers. PS7 students were the highest performing students in the Sacramento City Unified School District on ten of seventeen CSTs and they were the second, third or fourth highest performing on three additional exams.

  From: In the News. Published September 8, 2011. Last Modified September 10, 2011.

• Sacramento Charter High School Continues Outstanding CST Achievement

   

  Sacramento Charter High School students again showed strong gains on the CST, both overall and relative to their peers, and continue to prove that when provided a high quality, college-prep education, all students can rise to the challenge and the achievement gap can be closed.

  From: In the News. Published September 5, 2011. Last Modified September 9, 2011.

• Bullis Charter School Ranks as the Top-Performing Public School in Los Altos School District

   

  Bullis Charter School announced that it earned 984 on the 2011 Academic Performance Index (API) growth score, making it the highest-performing public school serving Los Altos School District students.

  From: In the News. Published September 1, 2011. Last Modified September 2, 2011.

• Los Angeles Charter Schools Outperform LAUSD

   

  Taken as a group, Los Angeles charter schools outperform Los Angeles Unified School District across all grade levels on the Academic Performance Index (API), California's primary academic accountability metric for schools.

  From: In the News. Published August 31, 2011. Last Modified August 31, 2011.

• Public School Choice Charter Schools Outperform District-Run Programs

   

  Charter schools that opened under the first round of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Public School Choice (PSC 1.0) initiative last fall are largely outperforming district-run PSC programs, according to STAR testing results. Despite these promising results, on Tuesday, the LAUSD board is set to decide whether to continue to allow charter schools to apply for new schools under this reform initiative.

  From: In the News. Published August 29, 2011. Last Modified October 4, 2011.

• California Charter Schools Association Responds to "USC School Performance Dashboard" Report

   

  A new University of Southern California (USC) report names top 10 charter schools in California. Also includes dashboard on financial health and academic performance of California's charter schools.

  From: In the News. Published June 15, 2011. Last Modified June 15, 2011.