Many school districts are giving their report cards a facelift for Common Core
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Long Beach fifth grade teacher Gina Bonetati holds her old report card, left, and the new transitional report card issued by her district.
School districts across California are rewriting elementary school report cards to reflect new learning standards known as the Common Core.
Because the change is not dictated by the state, it's unclear how many schools are switching. But several superintendents in Southern California said they were in the process.
“These are local decisions, that obviously districts should think about as they think about Common Core and new assessments,” said Deborah Sigman, with the California Department of Education.
Long Beach Unified is farther ahead than many others.
The district has for years used a numbered system of 1-4 that represents student's performance from “not proficient” to “advanced proficient.” Those numbers will remain, but the “proficient” language will be replaced with “areas on target” “areas of strength” and “areas of weakness.”
“After having parent conferences in the last couple of weeks, parents still have a hard
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