Tag: Common Core

  • Mid-City School Scores Highest Among Low-Income Schools On State Test

    America’s Finest Charter School students eat pizza at a 2013 party celebrating their reading achievements. | Photo Courtesy of America’s Finest Charter School By Megan Burks Nearly 80 percent of third graders at America’s Finest Charter School in Chollas View scored at or above standards on the language arts portion of the California Assessment of…

  • Cindy Marten On Common Core, Testing, New Funding Formula

    By Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh, and Peggy Pico San Diego’s new school superintendent is not just overseeing her first year running the county’s largest school district. She is also overseeing San Diego Unified School District’s transition to the new Common Core education standards. Plus, new guidelines will change how school testing is done. This school…