L.A. Unified to issue its own 'value-added' ratings of district schools
For the past year, the Los Angeles Unified School District has contracted with an outside consulting firm that has been doing its own "value-added" analysis of how effective schools are contributing to student outcomes.
The researchers with the firm, Education Strategy Consulting, said the results they have come up with are substantially different from those published for individual schools by the Los Angeles Times in its pathbreaking
State takes a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ approach to child care fraud
California presides over a $1.4 billion system of unlicensed child care with virtually no mechanism to detect or recover fraudulent payments, according to a report issued yesterday by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes.
The report [PDF] reveals everything from gaping holes in oversight to deliberate ‘I-don’t-want-to-know’ attitudes by state officials who fear that fraud detection might force California to send money back to Washington, D.C.
