Ed Source – Jane Meredith Adams
“Every one of California’s 50 largest school districts has committed to reducing the number of students sent home for behavioral infractions. But two years into a state requirement that districts let parents evaluate the path of progress, most of those 50 districts have not set specific suspension goals nor provided comparison rates that would allow parents to see if improvement is happening, according to a report released Thursday. Parent and community involvement is the philosophical backbone of the education finance system introduced in 2013, known as the Local Control Funding Formula, that shifts spending decisions from the state to local districts. In exchange, districts are required to create three-year Local Control and Accountability Plans, starting in 2014-15, to show exactly how much they are spending to drive improvements, including reducing suspensions and expulsions, and whether those investments have been effective.”(more)