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September 10, 2015
First California Assessment Of Student Performance, Progress Released
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oday, the California Department of Education made its first release of data for the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), the new online tests to measure progress for the new rigorous state standards. Because the assessments are significantly different from the previous versions known as the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR), the new PHOTO/ANTHONY VICTORIA CAASPP data serves as the Sixteen of the twenty-two San Bernardino High School Miss Cardinal Pageant participants at the baseline for future years and Way World Outreach Downtown Center on Saturday Sept. 5. should not be compared to earlier tests that do not cover the and staff, all respect his commit- guidance of the school’s bilingual more rigorous new Common By Anthony Victoria ment to student success. outreach director Jaime Rios. Core state standards. While some may perceive the “In the past couple of weeks I is diligent work ethic “I applaud our teachers, stuexcites many around San Miss Cardinal Pageant as strictly a have learned how to get along with dents, schools and districts for Bernardino High School. beauty and talent contest, its partictheir hard work in preparation Pageant cont. on next page Administration, faculty, parents, ipants gain far more through the and conversion to the new testing requirements,” San Bernardino County Superintendent Ted Alejandre said. “These tests will serve as new barometers to prepare our students for college and careers.” In the county, more than 210,000 students in Grades 3-8 and 11 took the math and English language arts/literacy portion of the CAASPP during the spring 2015. While the tests ranked academic performance in four categories – ranging from “standards exceeded” for the most proficient to “standard met” (proficient) to “standard nearly met” (not proficient) to “standard not met” (not proficient) – the goal for proficiency rates was to be in the top two tier ranges. Among county students in the seven grade levels tested in English language arts/literacy, 37 percent scored proficient PHOTO /ANTHONY VICTORIA with 11 percent meeting “stanSBCUSD board member Margaret Hill with San Gorgonio High School students. dard exceeded” and 26 percent reaching “standard met.” the area in 1969 in search of an Unified School District board For more information coneducational opportunity. Two member worked in various adminBy Anthony Victoria cerning the CAASPP results, years later, she became a teacher at istrative positions for the next 35 visit the California Department ecently arriving from San Bernardino High School--a years until her election to the dais of Education’s website at Virginia, a young position she held until 1978. www.cde.ca.gov. Margaret Hill arrived to The current San Bernardino City Hill cont. on next page
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Hill seeks reelection for school board, emphasizes student success
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