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As expected, both state and nationwide standardized tests scores showed pandemic-related declines this year, with fewer than half of California’s students meeting state standards in English and only a third meeting state standards in math, both significant declines from 2018-19 when the state last required the Smarter Balanced test.
EdSource’s reporting on these key measures provided comprehensive analysis of the data, and also played a key role in pushing California to release the data after the state had previously announced plans to delay its public release.
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Legislation that would remove one of the last tests teachers are required to take to earn a credential in California passed the Senate Education Committee.
Part-time instructors, many who work for decades off the tenure track and at a lower pay rate, have been called “apprentices to nowhere.”
A bill to mandate use of the method will not advance in the Legislature this year in the face of teachers union opposition.
Nearly a third of the 930 districts statewide that reported data had a higher rate of chronic absenteeism in 2022-23 than the year before.
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