State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell yesterday released the results of the 2007 Standardized Testing and Reporting
(STAR) program that indicate California students are continuing to improve their academic performance in most subjects and grades.
“This year’s results offer both encouragement and reason for serious concern,” O’Connell said. “We can be pleased that gains in student achievement made over the past five years are either increasing or holding steady. This progress means that hundreds of thousands of California students will have a better shot at success. But the data also show the persistent achievement gaps in our system that California simply cannot afford to accept – morally, economically, or socially.”
To view the latest data – which is preliminary, because a small number of districts have yet to complete testing – visit the California Department of Education’s Web site at http://star.cde.ca.gov. (Note there is no
World Wide Web (www) included in these URLS.) The Web site includes data on charter schools as well as public ones. To see the results from the Sonoma Valley Unified School District, go to http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2007/viewreport.asp?ps=true&lstCounty=49&lstDistrict=70953&lstSchool=.
