Inglewood schools

[essentialsaltes]

Just skimming through the nglewood Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team report on Inglewood Unified, and it makes for dismal reading. The state came in a while back and took over, when the district had a $55 million shortfall.

"Stated reasons for fiscal insolvency included: Overstating [attendance], understating California State Teachers’ Retirement System payments, understating certificated salary expenses, continued deficit spending, and declining enrollment."

And the board is just as dysfunctional as I thought: "There is evidence of conflict between board members as well as in-fighting, nepotism, and mismanagement by district leaders."

But let's just forget the fiscal mismanagement and leadership problems. Let's talk results.

"On the California Alternate Performance Assessment, ... [students scoring] proficient and above ... in math and in English language arts (ELA)." --- 1.3%

California Modified Assessment
Proficient and above in math --- 2.4%
Proficient and above in ELA --- 2.5%

Comments

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ah, is it SARC season already?

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

No, I think this was a extra-special report, due to the state coming in and taking over running the district.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ouch. A district has to bomb out pretty hard for that to happen. Mind you, "No Child Left Behind" really should be renamed "Every School Meant To Fail" because, eventually, they will...