Comments on: Second time a charm for MDUSD charter waiver?

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:25:53 +0000

Liberty made a good point. it’s a sad state of affairs that math proficiency declines in the upper grades. the goal is students should be proficient by high school graduation. this failure-seen at low-scoring schools like MDHS and Kennedy-should be addressed by the cde

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:40:38 +0000

Yes, but it’s time-consuming and cumbersome because you have to look up each school individually by year on the CDE website: http://star.cde.ca.gov/

By: anon

anon — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:16:19 +0000

TH: i tried to get the scores of individual schools and wasn’t successful. Doesn’t appear that API scores are yet available. But, is there away to compare the scores of 2011 to 2012 in regards to students at proficient and above?

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:01:34 +0000

We should not be celbrating 50% scoring proficient or above. The other 50% are not! This is terrible

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:35:27 +0000

Yes, that’s the point. The Liberty Union High School District is pointing out that the scores for unified districts such as Martinez and Pittsburg would be much lower if they were based solely on the high school scores. It is the elementary and middle school scores that give them their higher average scores.
This chart is a comparison of the high school scores (with the elementary and middle school scores left off), but it includes the district averages that are reported in my story.

By: g

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:27:43 +0000

They must have thrown in entire district’s on the average line? How else could the districts with just one high school (PUSD, MUSD) be off between the school line and the district line?

I want my taxes back.

By: g

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:11:33 +0000

Whomever ran, double checked and approved all of the averages must be products of MDUSD math departments. None of them are correct. All are high, and math average is just about double. Either something got left out or someone needs a new job.

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:03:05 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. We got this chart from Liberty USD (to show that other high schools scored low too), but it does seem odd that you could get a higher overall score than any of your individual high schools. Same thing with Antioch, WCCUSD, and Pittsburg. I will have to double-check this.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:58:46 +0000

None of the MDUSD high schools scored over 50% in math, MDHS was 10% and Northgate was 46%, then someone please explain how the district scored 53.10% ?

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:31:57 +0000

According to this spreadsheet, only 26.4 percent of Clayton Valley HS students scored proficient in math last year: http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site571/2012/0831/20120831_013249_2012%20CST%20county%20high%20schools.pdf

Here’s the summary report for CVHS: http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2012/ViewReport.aspx?ps=true&lstTestYear=2012&lstTestType=X&lstCounty=07&lstDistrict=61754-000&lstSchool=0731380&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1