TCLA's School Report Card Series
La serie de la Boleta escolar
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1. Introduction
Introdución
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2. Mission & Description
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3. Learning Materials
Condiciones para el aprendizaje de calidad
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4. Teaching Quality
Enseñanza de alta calidad
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5. Learning & Assessment
Asesoría y aprendizaje estudiantil
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6. Safe & Democratic Environment
Ambiente escolar seguro y democrático
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7. Final Comments
Comentarios finales
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>> From Students Rights to Real Accountability
Haz clic aquí para leer en español >>
Last year, TCLA’s “Students’ Bill of Rights” explored the basic school conditions that all students have a right to expect. This year, TCLA looks at how students and parents can hold local and state education officials accountable for providing those conditions. TCLA’s Virtual Report Card Series invites students, parents, and teachers to examine the conditions of learning at their schools and share this information with local and state education officials. This project promises to create new lines of communication between a more involved and better informed public and the officials charged with providing quality education for all. click here to continue >>
>> Special Feature in this Issue
 Senator Richard Alarcón Talks About the School Accountability Report Card
Senator Richard Alarcón (D–San Fernando Valley) discusses school accountability, the importance of teacher training and the responsibility of parents and communities to ensure that all children have adequate learning resources.
>> Tools for School Reporting
 How is your school described in its SARC?
Your school’s SARC contains very little information about the people and the physical plant that make up your school. SARCs in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) report the number of students from each racial/ethnic background who attend the school. LAUSD’s SARCs offer little insight about what shared vision motivates the people at each school. Every SARC includes the same nine “school goals” defined by the district. Further, we learn nothing from LAUSD’s SARCs about the school’s physical plant. Each school in LAUSD provides the same two-sentence description of its “School Facilities”: “Major maintenance improvements in campus appearance to promote a positive learning environment. Please call the school for additional information.” Find out what the SARC says about your school here.
Now It's Your Turn: Describing the People, Describing the Place
TCLA begins its Virtual School Report Card Project by asking students, teachers and parents to describe both the members of their school community and the school. Who are the young people who attend your school? Who are their parents? Who are the people who work at your school? What hopes do these individuals bring to your school? What are their concerns? TCLA seeks pictures, essays, poems, stories, and interviews that respond to these questions.
Readings: California’s Schools: Crisis and Vision
What are schools like across the state of California? What should they be like? TCLA will be exploring these question throughout the year. We include two readings in this issue that respond to each of these questions. The first is a description of one school that suffers from many of the problems facing schools around the state—overcrowding, inadequate facilities and materials, and a lack of highly qualified teachers and the second is a statement from the California Legislature’s Master Plan Committee about what every student is entitled to. Haz clic aquí para español >>
These readings may help you answer the following questions:
•Does your school experience some of the same problems as Cali Middle School?
•Does every student at your school receive the quality of education promised in the state Master Plan?
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Archived Front Page of TCLA - Vol.3, No.1 (12/20/02)
