Supporting Continuous Improvement in California's Education System
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Supporting Continuous Improvement in California's Education System
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California’s new accountability system originated in the radical decentralization of power and authority from Sacramento to local schools and their communities brought about by the Legislature’s adoption of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013. Under California’s previous accountability policies and the federal “No Child Left Behind” law, the state set performance targets for schools and districts based almost entirely on students’ standardized test scores. Schools that fell short of their targets were subject to a variety of increasingly harsh sanctions, ranging from designation as a “failing” school to reconstitution or closure. California’s new accountability system is different from the previous system in nearly every important respect. The new system is grounded in the concept of reciprocal accountability: that is, every actor in the system—from the Capitol to the classroom—must be responsible for the aspects of educational quality and performance that it controls.
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Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
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Darling-Hammond, L., & Plank, D. N. (2015). Supporting Continuous Improvement in California’s Education System. Policy Analysis for California Education. https://edpolicyinca.org/publications/supporting-continuous-improvement-californias-education-system
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