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Explore the transformative initiatives in Poway Unified School District, merging postsecondary education with career preparation, personalized learning plans, and project/problem-based learning.
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Common Core Standards • 48 States, plus D.C. came together to create national education standards. • Uniformity • Lower Costs • Interstate Movement
Common Core Standards Test • No Bubble Tests • Emphasize students’ ability to analyze and apply knowledge. • Performance based testing during the year. • Computerized year end assessment.
AB2648 Multiple Pathways to Student Success • Personalized learning plans. (3-5 years) • Merges postsecondary education with career preparation. • Additional school days and hours per day. • Project/problem based learning. • Partnership academies; regional occupational centers; internships; career-themed small schools.
“There is a failure here that topples all our success.” - John Steinbeck
California • 49th in students per teacher • 47th in per pupil funding • 46th in education spending as a percentage of personal income • 51st in students per guidance counselor • 51st in students per librarian • 47th in total principals and assistant principals • 48th in total school staff • 46th in district officials and administrators • 45th in instructional aides • 49th in access to computers.
National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) • 47th in 4th grade reading • 46th in 8th grade math. (46th in education spending as a percentage of personal income.)
To Reach the National Average, Need: • 104,000 teachers • 26,569 instructional aides • 5,740 guidance counselors • 5,740 librarians • 5,630 principals or assistant principals • 63,000 more computer work stations
Robles-Wong v. California • CAPTA, CSBA, ACSA, and over 60 school districts, parents and students
1849 – Cal. Const. art. IX, s2 – The State School Fund was created 1910 – Const. Amendment – No longer finite source 1920 – Const. Amendment - State Average Daily Attendance (ADA) and local property taxes 1946 – Const. Amendment: “The Foundation Program Minimum (state “basic aid” + local district tax revenues < Foundation Program Minimum, then State “Equalization Aid”)
1971 – Serrano v. Priest • 1972-1973 Response to Serrano – “Revenue Limit” controls • Revenue Limit was based on the state’s Foundation Program Minimum Funding and local property tax revenues as of 1972-73
Revenue Limits • Unrelated to actual cost of district educational program • “Level Up” and “Level Down” • Became maximum funding levels (adjusted for inflation only) • Continues to be based on historical data unrelated to actual costs of providing educational program and services
1978 – Proposition 13 • Rolled property assessments to 1975-76 levels • Limited property tax rate to 1% • Gave state complete control in allocating reduced property tax revenues • Eliminated school districts’ ability to levy ad valorem property taxes for education
1978 – Proposition 13 • 60% reduction in local property tax revenues • Share of property tax revenues allocated to schools reduced from 53% to 35% • 1 year after Proposition 13 school district revenues from State went from 23% to 53% **Education now forced to compete with other programs for General Fund revenues**
1988 – Proposition 98 • Minimum funding level for K-14 education • Ties school funding to growth in State General Fund revenues • Volatile and unpredictable, with revenue projections changing over the school year • Can be suspended during economic crisis • Funding formulas based on 1986/87 education budget, which was based on antiquated caps set in 1970’s (adjusted for cost of living and population).
1988 – Proposition 98 • “Minimum” has become a Maximum • Includes: child care, adult education, probation schools, California Youth Authority programs, health screening, public safety… • Accounting gimmicks • Prop. 98 funding cut by $17 Billion in last 2 years
Categorical Funding (Funding tied to a specific program or service) • 1980 – State and Federal Categorical Programs – 13% of state education funding • Today – 1/3 of state funding is categorical with general purpose funds being reduced correspondingly