According to the federal government, the SAUSD did NOT make adequate yearly progress (overall as a district).
36 schools did NOT make adequate yearly progress out of 58 schools total in the SAUSD.
15 Elementary Schools out of 37 made adequate yearly progress
22 Elementary Schools out of 37 did NOT make adequate yearly progress
2 Middle Schools made adequate yearly progress
7 Middle Schools did NOT make adequate yearly progress
3 High Schools made adequate yearly progress
5 High Schools did NOT make adequate yearly progress
Elementary Schools that made adequate yearly progress
Elementary Schools that did not make adequate yearly progress
Heroes is not listed yet
Middle Schools that made adequate yearly progress
Middle Schools that did not make adequate yearly progress
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Spurgeon Intermediate
High Schools that made adequate yearly progress
High Schools that did not make adequate yearly progress
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Santa Ana High
Small Schools that made adequate yearly progress
ASAM Schools that made adequate yearly progress
ASAM Schools that did not make adequate yearly progress
In related news, Susan Mercer won the SAEA election and will take over for outgoing union president David Barton. I would expect that she will continue to aid and abet the corruption at the SAUSD.Failure is the rule at the SAUSD, and yet the same awful school board trustees keep getting elected. Nothing changes. I thought Measure G was supposed to fix everything? I guess not. Now the district is in the midst of firing hundreds of teachers and classified employees, while the administrators continue to make a ton of money. God knows how much they are still blowing on overpaid consultants. Don’t our kids deserve better?
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Art, making AYP is extremely difficult when the bar is continuously set higher and higher each year while our student population continues to become more and more troubled. With a hard economy comes more at-risk students… Since September I have personally had three students tell me they have become homeless, and others whose parents have lost their jobs so the student has to work 30 hours or more a week to pull in the slack; how are these students supposed to be successful academically under these conditions, and how many other students are in similar situations but don’t talk about it? Student apathy is at an all-time high and for many of them, all they want to do is escape into activities that ensure they don’t have to think too hard.
It is important to note that AYP is part of the unfunded mandate of No Child Left Behind, which (hysterically) expects all students in CA to be English proficient by 2013. How on earth could that ever be possible with the amount of immigrants that flow through the school system? Also included in the test scores that measure AYP is that a certain percentage of students HAVE to take the test, and with few or no attendance clerks and rampant truancies attendance has taken a nosedive in the junior highs and high schools… how are kids supposed to do well on the test if the only day we can actually drag them in is the day of? Not to mention the fact that the three high schools who did make AYP actively recruit the top students from all the junior highs, skimming the cream off the top and changing the student pool at the neighborhood schools from what it was just a few years ago.
Yes, our kids deserve better, but sometimes the variables that go into the measurements of success are overwhelmingly stacked against us. I don’t know that a change in leadership will really change much about many of the difficulties educators encounter with individual student success. What are we supposed to do?
So a downtrodden City has a failing School District. Looks like they go hand in hand. It’s no wonder the City of Santa Ana has a terrible reputation and we can all point fingers at the Usual Suspects (Glen & Julie Stroud, Thomas Gordon, Philis Bacerra, Tish Leon, and Midget Mayor Pulido, Dave Ream). After all, aren’t these the people who make decisions for City Hall?
#1. Of course everyone can be proficient in English by 2013. Santa Ana Unified School District has the best poster child as an example.
With the help of a Coyote (not the animal) Santa Ana School Board Member Jose Alfredo Hernandez came to the United States illegally and did not know how to speak English. His parents paid a human trafficker to take Jose Alfredo Hernandez to his grandparent’s home in Santa Ana so they could raise him and make sure he got a quality education. He took advantage of all the FREE education our government offers everyone (including illegal aliens) and when Ronald Reagan gave Amnesty in the ’80’s, well Jose Alfredo signed up. He got help to pay for college with scholarships for low-income, first family member’s in college, and Cal grants. Look how far he has come! What an inspiration.
Encourage School Board Member Jose Alfredo Hernandez to share his story with all SAUSD students so that they too can be inspired and be all that they can be.
Hey, brighten up and mellow out at this year’s news. Next year’s school assessments will be far, far, far worse as we try to teach more students with fewer teachers in more crowded spaces.
The variables are stacked against the teachers; kids are living with single parents, both parents work, they’re bouncing from dad’s house to mom’s house every other week, they’re parents don’t read/write English (or even Spanish), video games, computers, cell phones, gangsters…
Kids don’t get the support that they need outside of school.
Change in leadership? I guess…
How about afterschool programs, clubs, sports, mentors… A couple more hours a day of stability, membership and discipline after school to help balance the variables outside of school would help the kids tremendously; maybe not immediately but over time and maybe not directly with these scores but indirectly with their lives.
I don’t think that people really understand that the whole system is set up for failure. Every school in every district will eventually fail. The goal is 100% Proficiency. This, despite the fact that every year questions are removed from the test because “too many kids got them right” (direct quote from a training from the county). The goal of the test makers is always to achieve a bell curve, how can we have 100% proficiency when the test is changed so that kids DON’T get questions right? Many of the questions have become so complicated and tricky that they really don’t even test if the student knows the information, this is exceptionally difficult for a limited English student who knows the material but can’t figure out what the question is asking. Many schools (mine included) made their goal as far as the overall number increase, but because one sub group (ELL students) barely missed the mark the entire school is deemed a failure. This is the information the public needs to understand.
No what the public needs to understand is who represents the American taxpayer. On the 19th the American taxpayer sent a message NO MORE MONEY!!
Has any of the teachers ever questioned why the hell Americans should be paying for Foregin Nationlist childern NO??? Why Not?? Its because bad schools need more teachers and their is absoultely no accountablity!! The kids are doing bad for three reason 1, poor parenting, 2. poor teaching 3. corruption within the school district and CTA.
Why the hell should Americans be paying for any of this??
It was a joke that teachers were parading in the streets to keep their jobs. All the schools in Santa Ana are failing and what is the excuse for the last 7 years?? the economy was doing quite well???
Are we to believe that all santa ana’s parents are crap and the kids cant learn because they don’t speak English. With that in mind, why were the teachers not parading for that cause????
Its all bull crap teachers are over paid and do not preform because NO Officals give a dam!!
The CTA will not let teachers be held accountable for their poor teachers and areas like santa ana which has mostly Illegal mexicans are producing nothing but crime,gangs and uneducated poor that will drain this state and this country. Unless the voting public says no more, that’s it!!
Teachers get paid well and so does the rest of the rediculous public school system hacks!!
“Bad” schools as you say do not get any more teachers than good schools. Michelle, if your level of education is an example of public schools, then I’d have to agree that they failed you miserably. Your oversimplification of the issues is astounding. You seem unwilling to pay attention to the real issues. No where in my post did I mention the propositions. In that respect, I understand the general populations frustrations. We have a generally overcomplicated state budget system that is imploding as we speak. Your desire to blame teachers for everything at the same time that you list problems such as illegal immigrants, crime and poverty as causes shows that you really are very limited in your understanding of the things teachers have control over. Teachers as a whole are a very intelligent and caring group of people who fight to do their absolute best under circumstances that are difficult at best. Spend some time in my classroom with 40 students crammed together for a short period of time and you’ll see the challenges we face.
Who is in the classroom teaching the children? Teachers. Who is to blame for the failing test scores? Teachers.
Who do Teachers blame for failing grades? Everyone except themselves.
Do the readers realize there are many teachers earning over $100,000 annually? The starting salary for a teacher may be in the mid $30,000 but there is a lot of incentive pay that many teachers take advantage of. I personally know of one knucklehead teacher who was lousy at teaching when I went to Saddleback and when he retired a few years ago, he was worse. I saw his retirement check and it’s over $9,000 per month!
It’s no wonder Teachers protect each other and their incompetencies; they don’t want you to take away their right to collect their big ticket retirement checks.
The answer to declining test scores and overpaid Teachers is: V O U C H E R S !!! We need a Voucher initiative on the ballot and we need to pass it. If we want our kids to get a decent education, they need to go to a private education institution and we need to use VOUCHERS to help pay for it.
Someone call John & Ken and ask them to get this initiative rolling! Beep Beep.
I agree with Jose’s neighbor,he’s great. He is gonna run against Sal Tinajero just like me. All that matters is that Sal loses.
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Your right tmare. I came from a public school system that had teachers trying to teach kids in the middle of a civil war!!
Now again what is the excuse for santa ana school teachers,admin,parents??
It is o so simple, no brain surgery here:
1. lazy over paid teachers, just picking up a pay check. (they cant be expected to teach scum?? right!)2.A teachers Union that dictates how students are taught. 3.A large amount of third world parents who don’t see education as a priority. 4. second generation of kids who are born of illegal parents in the US who are a sub-culture neither belonging to Mexico and hating America!!
BAD BAD COMBINATION!!
This yahoo group has good discussions on a variety of education related subjects. It focuses on San Francisco, but many of the discussions carry across to other districts, too.
sfschools@yahoogroups.com
You must request to be a member and they will send out emails to you. Currently, they are discussing their API scores that are lower this year. Earlier this month they alerted members to the upcoming visit by new Secretary of Ed. Arne Duncan.
tmare,
You are wasting your time responding to Michelle. I would have to say that without question that Michelle is the most ignorant person that writes on this blog. I would also invite Michelle and others who believe that teachers are lazy and overpaid to spend one week with me in my classroom and witness what I deal with. I would also invite them to do our jobs if they think it’s so easy. They wouldn’t last one day, much less a week.
anonymous,
Well said and I agree with you. Test scores don’t mean a hoot to me. Yes, they guide us to what we can do better, but what does this really tell us? It tells me that kids are trying and if they could do better they would. Until they test on what we cover in class, this doesn’t mean a hoot of beans to me. If a child can read a book, write sentences, spell, communicate, follow directions, add, subtract is what I want them to be able to do when leaving my classroom.
Test scores mean nothing to some students since there are no consequences for continued failure. There is no “permanent record” in a kid’s life. If one of my 50 plus students decides to do nothing on the tests or just make bubble art, the teacher the school and the district are penalized, the student is passed along without summer school, extra classes, or any repercussions for those sometimes regarded as most central in a child’s life, the parents. This is the case in the SAUSD.
You’re right. Nothing happens to parents or the kids therefore there’s “nothing in it for them” to do well (sad to say).
I am not shifting the blame here, but it would definitely help if someone would have mandatory parenting classes if a child is failing.
I hear parents calling the school already asking about the end of the year “parties” and what they can bring. I told the kids and the secretary that I am not having a party for anything. I wish they would care about their child’s writing and school work as much as they care about a silly “party.”
I like that our principal doesn’t allow them. She said we could have 1, but it has to be related to school and earned.
I heard her once telling a parent to send back the cupcakes on a birthday. She told them this is a school not party central. 🙂 I loved it!!!!
Yeah Needtoknow i am the ignorant one!!!
Its your job and if you can’t hack it get out of it!! because you are not doing the kids any favours!
The employee’s of the public school system has got away with business as usual for too long. The amount of money spent for education in this state is rediculous.
What needs to happen is an audit of all the teachers for teaching quality, stricker disipline of students.
If the education of children is so important to Santa Ana school teachers then fight for it or give up and let someone else try.
Needtoknow you can’t take the truth.
I have no respect for the Public school system and teachers of this state, if the same applied to nursing many of the patients would be dead right now that is what you are doing to the kids that you teach “killing them”
I dont say this lightly, but the complete irrogance of teacher’s blaming everyone else for the failure of educated kids is intolerable.
You picked the job, not I.
And your right!! I am not just a mouth piece.
You let me know a time and date and i will be at your class room!!
Michelle,
You sound like a very sad, unhappy person. The teachers here love their jobs. They are only saying that people like you who critize them have no clue that teaching is a very difficult job. They didn’t write that they hate their jobs. As a teacher in Santa Ana Unified, people like you have no clue what we deal with. I love my students and my school. And thank goodness that you are not in our profession. You are the one who sounds like a racist. I wouldn’t want you anywhere near my students. I don’t even know why you are writing on these blogs on education anyway.
michelle (#17) Did I ever say on this blog post that you were ignorant? You said it, not me.
All you do is complain and complain – essentially the only solution you have is to eliminate public education – period. In your mind, the Districts should be dismantled, unions dismantled, teachers fired, vouchers set in place, the entire tax system be reworked, anyone that can’t speak English be sent back to where ever they came from. And, of course, you want the whole thing to happen yesterday.
Do I think you are ignorant? Absolutely. And naive. You have absolutely no reasonable plan for fixing the system – except to dismantle the entire thing. The best I can figure is that you want us to establish the same system that taught you 40-50-60 years ago in Ireland – run by the Catholic Church, minimum wage, provide no benefits, and stop hiring anyone that has bothered to go to university and pay them a competitive wage. Yeah, you are completely ignorant.
Hi, nice posts there 🙂 thank’s for the interesting information
Stop loving them Maria and teach them, you are not being paid to love anyone!!
please give me a break with the same old bull shit of rascism!!
This is not about colour,but a crappy school system with teacher’s who of course as seen in the news alot lately love to love their students!
Yes your right Union girl. It needs to be dismantled. Again audit with out side assistance teaching quality and student behaviour. Parent must be accountable for their kids behaviour in school, no more of this underserved bull, if Santa Ana was a socialist country it would be the most served in the world!!
pay teachers for preformance not for hours spent in a class room!!
I see you neglected to give me a time or date to your class room!!
just a quick pointer!!
This country is fixated on colour, it give’s people a reason to fail,demand,have no accoutabity, even kill.
In other countries is your religion!!
judge not a man by the colour of his skin, but the content of his mind. (Need i say more)!!
Maria, this is America every tax payer has the right to let you teachers know that we are sick and tired of you failing the kids. (no matter their bloodly colour) you have such a cheek!!
This Michelle object is cheapening our blog! How did she find us–hello, wrong blog, go vent at bitter.com.
#13, please give her a time and a place for your class. Hopefully we can teach her proper English, let her re-do first grade, get her a Psych. Eval. and send her on her way to improving her life and her outlook on life in general. You may have to meet her at the public library-she sounds obsessed and psycho. I’m surprised Art’s put up with her and hasn’t educated her a bit. On this blog you either contribute or you are educated about the topic at hand.
I think the flies she sees at Price Savers Sup. Mkt. is her lack of hygiene. Visited this mkt. it is a clean place, demographics are sure changing in there-hard times have folks looking for bargains. By the way, this grocery store is Indian-Owned, targets the Latino population, and lately it is looking more diverse-Floral Park folks are happily shopping locally for a change.
-Back to ignorant Cheapo –the unresolved childhood traumas are evident here. She’s obviously tired of living- a bitter, envious, and uneducated local element who does not appreciate teachers, nor anyone that radiates positive energy… such as our dedicated teachers who spend half of their earnings on innovative teaching materials and supplies in order to create incentives for their students. This Michelle person needs love, sounds like a social reject who has done nothing in her life but criticized those who help others- She must not be very happy with herself. She claims that the amount of money spent on education in this state is ridiculous or “rediculous” as she puts it- Someone needs to flash a National Budget pie chart in front of her face and kindergarten her please!!!; someone let her compare that which is spent on defense and other areas to education!
BLAH BLAH BLAH, So God or is it Santa Ana School teacher???, do i piss you off or what!!!
Sorry the whole uneducated,rasist,sad,bull,runs of my back lovey!!
How much are you making of this nutty cheapo!!
start working for your pay check and stop expecting the public to pay for your awful work preformance!
When public education improves, then teachers will have my respect.
And God your in America “Freedom of Speech even for us cheapo’s”
By the way life is getting alot more fun, taking on scum bags that are ripping off Americans(which encludes this Irish cheapo!!)
Thanks for the spelling tips
Thank goodness all you Santa Ana School teachers are exellent speller’s with a great mastery of English “the schools are all so top rated”:)
I would like to Thankyou Doctor for not being a true liberal by sensoring freedom of speech:)
My friend in Ireland wanted to say something to you god but i had to water it down a bit!!
She said you are a stuckup Elitist,thieving @#$@^%#^&$**$()$)$))$**$())$))$_*&@^^@^@
It was pretty funny, but i dont think you would get the joke:)
Last post was for the nasty Santa Ana School teacher not you Doctor!!OOOPS
Our schools are failing because the teachers are inept. They don’t take personal responsibility fo their performance or lack of and blame anyone and everyone except themselves. If you want kids to get a decent education, send them to private schools.
VOUCHERS! VOUCHERS! VOUCHERS!
Beep beep.
Beep Beep Road runner. VIVA VOUCHERS!! Lets get these public school teacher’s off their pedal stools!:)
Needtoknow or is it anonymous, now its God!!
I’m not a great writer, but i am pretty good at picking out something that does not smell right!!
Stop posting as different posters, it is not very ethical or honest. If you want to berate someone do it with integrity.
And you wonder why i have no respect for teachers??
Jill, i see that you also are a Santa Ana School teacher. Thankyou very much for your honesty.