Before they called their schools ‘deteriorating,’ Santa Ana officials called them ‘exemplary’

By Kelly McGee
07/10/2018
Call it a tale of two school districts: The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) is sending out conflicting messages regarding the status of its schools: their facilities are amazingly good — unless they’re amazingly bad. According to the School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs) posted on the SAUSD website, all of the district’s high schools...

TAGS: School Accountability Report Cards

How These Public Schools Went from ‘Exemplary’ to 'Deteriorating' in Just Months

By Catrin Thorman
11/03/2016
Just months before they told the public they need billions of dollars in new tax revenue for school repairs, school district officials across California were telling the state Department of Education a very different story: their facilities are in “good” condition — even “exemplary.” The glowing self-assessments are contained in School Accountability Report Cards reviewed...

TAGS: Ocean View School District, SARC, School Accountability Report Cards

How These Public Schools Went from ‘Exemplary’ to ‘Deteriorating’ in Just Months

By Catrin Thorman
11/03/2016
Just months before they told the public they need billions of dollars in new tax revenue for school repairs, school district officials across California were telling the state Department of Education a very different story: their facilities are in “good” condition — even “exemplary.” The glowing self-assessments are contained in School Accountability Report Cards reviewed...

TAGS: Ocean View School District, SARC, School Accountability Report Cards