March 11, 2005
California Department of Education Releases Data Corrections
District Program Improvement; Free and Reduced Price Meal Data Revised
SACRAMENTO — Due to a technical processing error, the California Department of Education (CDE) has revised the number of school districts identified for Program Improvement.
Based on a mistake made within CDE's Assessment and Accountability branch, some districts were erroneously informed on March 8 that they would be identified for Program Improvement. When the programming error was discovered the criteria for identification were correctly applied. Out of the 184 districts from that preliminary list, 49 have since been removed and 15 new districts were added. An official list of the 150 school districts identified for Program Improvement is attached below.
The State Board of Education formally adopted the criteria on March 9, 2005. The criteria provide for a complex analysis of test results by elementary, middle, and high school grade spans within a school district. The adoption of these criteria followed a lengthy negotiation between California officials and the U.S. Education Department over the question of how to identify Program Improvement districts in California. All affected districts and federal officials have been notified.
Please be aware that all districts identified for Program Improvement have the opportunity to appeal this identification for statistical or other substantive reasons.
CDE has also addressed a separate data issue related to the CalWORKS/Free or Reduced Price Meal data file, which was updated on February 1, 2005. The current data file includes corrections to errors identified in the previous version.
The CalWORKS/Free and Reduced Price Meal data file contains the number and percentage of students in California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS) California's welfare reform program and the number and percentage of students enrolled in the Free or Reduced Price Meal Program. The purpose of the data collection is to identify all economically disadvantaged children.
The data were publicly available from early November 2004 to February 1, 2005. CDE is aware that before those data were corrected they were used by the Education Trust — West (ETW) for an analysis in a report released on February 15, 2005 titled "California's Hidden Teacher Spending Gap." According to the ETW, the revised data do not change any of the major conclusions of its report. A revised version of the report based on the corrected data is available from the ETW and can be found at http://www.hiddengap.org (Outside Source).
Data files are routinely updated as more current and accurate information is provided to CDE. CDE continues to make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all downloadable files, and will provide the posting date for all available files.
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Attachment
Districts No Longer on Program Improvement List |
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Acton-Agua Dulce Unified |
Albany City Unified |
Alhambra City High |
Barstow Unified |
Bear Valley Unified |
Bellflower Unified |
Big Lagoon Union Elementary |
Calexico Unified |
Calistoga Joint Unified |
Cardiff Elementary |
Centralia Elementary |
Cucamonga Elementary |
Del Norte County Unified |
Dinuba Unified |
Duarte Unified |
El Rancho Unified |
Fillmore Unified |
Grant Joint Union High |
Hughson Unified |
John Swett Unified |
Livingston Union Elementary |
Los Banos Unified |
Lynwood Unified |
Mammoth Unified |
McKinleyville Union Elementary |
Mojave Unified |
Morongo Unified |
North Sacramento Elementary |
Palo Alto Unified |
Palo Verde Unified |
Paradise Unified |
Paso Robles Joint Unified |
Patterson Joint Unified |
Perris Union High |
Porterville Unified |
Robla Elementary |
Ross Valley Elementary |
Round Valley Unified |
San Lorenzo Valley Unified |
Santa Cruz City Elementary |
Santa Cruz City High |
Scotts Valley Unified |
Selma Unified |
Shasta Union High |
Shoreline Unified |
Twin Hills Union Elementary |
Valley Center-Pauma Unified |
Western Placer Unified |
Woodland Joint Unified |
Districts Added to Program Improvement 3/11/2005 |
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Anaheim Union High |
Coalinga-Huron Joint Unified |
East Whittier City Elementary |
Elk Grove Unified |
McFarland Unified |
Monterey Peninsula Unified |
Moreno Valley Unified |
Oakland Unified |
Pajaro Valley Unified School |
Reef-Sunset Unified |
Rialto Unified |
Riverbank Unified |
Sonoma Valley Unified |
Tahoe-Truckee Joint Unified |
Vacaville Unified |
March 11, 2005 District Program Improvement List |
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Alisal Union Elementary |
Alum Rock Union Elementary |
Alvord Unified |
Anaheim Elementary |
Anaheim Union High |
Antelope Valley Union High |
Arvin Union Elementary |
Atwater Elementary |
Azusa Unified |
Bakersfield City Elementary |
Banning Unified |
Berkeley Unified |
Campbell Union High |
Castaic Union Elementary |
Centinela Valley Union High |
Chaffey Joint Union High |
Chawanakee Unified |
Chico Unified |
Coachella Valley Unified |
Coalinga-Huron Joint Unified |
Colton Joint Unified |
Compton Unified |
Covina-Valley Unified |
Cupertino Union School |
Del Paso Heights Elementary |
Delano Joint Union High |
Delano Union Elementary |
Desert Sands Unified |
Earlimart Elementary |
East Side Union High |
East Whittier City Elementary |
Eastside Union Elementary |
El Centro Elementary |
El Dorado Union High |
El Monte City Elementary |
El Monte Union High |
Elk Grove Unified |
Enterprise Elementary |
Escondido Union High |
Eureka City Unified |
Fairfax Elementary |
Fallbrook Union High |
Franklin-McKinley Elementary |
Fremont Union High |
Fresno Unified |
Fullerton Joint Union High |
Garvey Elementary |
Greenfield Union Elementary |
Greenfield Union Elementary |
Grossmont Union High |
Hacienda la Puente Unified |
Hanford Elementary |
Hawthorne Elementary |
Hemet Unified |
Hesperia Unified |
Hollister School District |
Hueneme Elementary |
Jurupa Unified |
Keppel Union Elementary |
Kern Union High |
King City Union Elementary |
Kings Canyon Joint Unified |
La Habra City Elementary |
Lagunitas Elementary |
Lancaster Elementary |
Lawndale Elementary |
Lemon Grove Elementary |
Lennox Elementary |
Liberty Union High |
Little Lake City Elementary |
Lodi Unified |
Los Angeles Unified |
Lost Hills Union Elementary |
Madera Unified |
Marysville Joint Unified |
Mattole Unified |
McFarland Unified |
Mendota Unified |
Merced City Elementary |
Modesto City Elementary |
Modesto City High |
Montebello Unified |
Monterey Peninsula Unified |
Moreno Valley Unified |
Mountain View Elementary |
Nevada Joint Union High |
Newark Unified |
Oakland Unified |
Ontario-Montclair Elementary |
Oroville City Elementary |
Oxnard Elementary |
Oxnard Union High |
Pajaro Valley Unified School |
Palm Springs Unified |
Palmdale Elementary |
Paramount Unified |
Perris Elementary |
Planada Elementary |
Pomona Unified |
Ravenswood City Elementary |
Red Bluff Joint Union High |
Reef-Sunset Unified |
Rialto Unified |
Richland Union Elementary School |
Rio Elementary |
Riverbank Unified |
Romoland Elementary |
Salida Union Elementary |
Salinas City Elementary |
Salinas Union High |
San Benito High |
San Bernardino City Unified |
San Jacinto Unified |
San Lorenzo Unified |
San Luis Coastal Unified |
San Ysidro Elementary |
Sanger Unified |
Santa Ana Unified |
Santa Barbara Elementary |
Santa Maria-Bonita Elementary |
Santa Paula Elementary |
Sequoia Union High |
Snowline Joint Unified |
Sonoma Valley Unified |
South Bay Union Elementary |
Stockton City Unified |
Sweetwater Union High |
Taft City Elementary |
Tahoe-Truckee Joint Unified |
Terra Bella Union Elementary |
Thermalito Union Elementary |
Tracy Joint Unified |
Tulare City Elementary |
Turlock Joint Union High |
Vacaville Unified |
Vallejo City Unified |
Victor Valley Union High |
Vineland Elementary |
Visalia Unified |
Walnut Creek Elementary |
Wasco Union Elementary |
Waterford Unified |
West Contra Costa Unified |
West Fresno Elementary |
Whittier City Elementary |
Whittier Union High |
Wilsona Elementary |
Winters Joint Unified |
Woodlake Union Elementary |
Yosemite Joint Union High |
