LAUSD Presents A “School Performance Framework” To Parents, While Failing To Notify Any About It
Two Aprils ago the District resolved to “Establish A Framework For Continuous Improvement” of its diverse complex of approximately one thousand schools, including traditional, charter, special education, special programming, etc.
The idea was to ‘identify and track a uniform set of measures for each school’s overall annual performance, that would enable district and parents alike to understand and evaluate school performance’.
A little off schedule (about nine months late), two trios of Educational consultants converged from Washington, DC (“Collaborative Commnications”) and Madison, WI (“Education Analytics”) to present some trial dashboard-like screens of the new School Performance Framework (SPF) to a collection of parents assembled during four daytime sessions, still ongoing this week (click here to attend).
The trouble is that at least for Tuesday’s session, fewer than a dozen parents were present, and the preponderance of these had heard of the meeting through “word-of-mouth”, via a shallow pool of friends and acquaintances demographically similar essentially by definition; not directly by invitation or message from the District. Questioned by a parent about outreach sharply, a District official explained that only parents already engaged with elite, District-level councils were notified during this holiday period, and the meetings were not advertised or managed even on LAUSD’s website. The demographic represented directly CONTINUE READING: LAUSD Presents A “School Performance Framework” To Parents, While Failing To Notify Any About It – redqueeninla