CTA: Reform programs helped underperforming schools
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The California's Teachers Association is crediting a reform program with helping to improve scores at the lowest performing schools in the state. The reform program is called California's Quality Education Investment Act. This is not new money -- these are funds that were owed to California schools by the state.
The report was put out by the California Teachers Association and it found there has been progress in helping at-risk students, but ABC7 found it isn't working as well as they say it is.
Nearly 500 California schools will end up sharing $3 billion dollars in state funds over seven years. It stems from a lawsuit from the California Teachers Association, the CTA, which argued kids were being denied their right to a high quality education.
"As a result, these dollars were then sent back to the schools specifically to the lowest achieving schools in California with the idea this would help close the