Doug McRae

November 6, 2017

Stagnant California test scores pose problem; state board may rejigger how to rate districts

State may change color configurations on the school dashboard to reduce the number of districts and student subgroups requiring county assistance.

October 5, 2016

State officials push alternative ways to report test scores

Current method doesn't credit progress by lowest and highest performing students.

May 6, 2015

State board awards disputed test contract to ETS

Company pledges more training, better pay for teachers scoring online tests.

March 15, 2015

State's choice of testing contractor disputed

Hiring teachers to score new Common Core tests is a priority.

December 3, 2014

State rethinks how to report test scores

California policymakers say they intend to create a different system for reporting results of the upcoming tests on the Common Core standards than parents and schools have become used to in the era of the No Child Left Behind Act.

John Fensterwald

State Board of Education

November 13, 2014

School groups ask to delay API scores

The State Board of Education, as expected, voted Thursday to move ahead in the spring with the new Smarter Balanced tests on the Common Core State Standards while leaving open, for now, the decision on what to do with the test results.

John Fensterwald

State Education Policy

November 7, 2013

States' testing exec embraces California's controversial decision for Common Core tests

John Fensterwald

Data

August 29, 2013

Academic Performance Index declines for the first time in a decade

For nine of the last 10 years, scores on California’s standardized tests steadily rose, indicating the testing system did what it was supposed to do and raised student achievement. That streak ended and exposed an ongoing achievement gap with Thursday’s release of the 2013 Academic Performance Index, or API.