API Alzheimer's - Perdaily.com

API Alzheimer's - Perdaily.com

API Alzheimer's

by Leonard

On Wednesday the California Department of Education released the 2009 Academic Performance Index (API) scores for schools in California. At LAUSD the news that 72% of its schools were in the lower half in terms of performance of all schools throughout the state didn't seem to bother LAUSD leadership very much. No matter how badly students perform on the API or other assessments, a successful career in LAUSD administration still means that you are incapable of seeing that anything is wrong.

This is attested to by the contemporaneous appointment of Michelle King to succeed Jim Morris as LAUSD Chief of Staff to Superintendent Ramon Cortines. "A brilliant, innovative and versatile leader, Michelle King never loses sight of our primary mission: Educating children," Superintendent Ramon Cortines said. "She is a veteran educator who has excelled in every assignment. I look forward to her bringing continuity to the position." King who is presently superintendent of Local District 3 for LAUSD