The nine California districts seeking their own version of a No Child Left Behind Act waiver plan to make significant changes to their request to increase their odds of winning this flexibility.
Armed with feedback from the U.S. Department of Education’s outside peer reviewers, the districts say they will no longer only factor in test scores of the last grade in each school for accountability purposes. This was one of the more radical ideas in the proposal submitted by these “CORE” districts, which stands for California Office to Reform Education. The districts include Fresno, Los Angeles, and Sacremento.
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