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September 2014

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.tolerance.org/print/immigration-myths .forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/05/29/ addressing-and-discrediting-7-major-myths-about-immigration http://easyyolk.blogspot.com/2012/05/who-would-jesus-deport.html aritatur raectes orerem etur pligenectem. P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y S C O T T B U S C H M A N Feature I n all the excitement about the new Common Core State Standards, the Local Control Funding Formula and a brand-new school year, we've forgotten about an important milestone. It's 2014, offi cially the year we're supposed to be perfect. Under No Child Left Behind, every student is supposed to be profi cient in English and math — even if they have learning disabilities, don't speak English or put out zero eff ort. Remember? Of course you do. It was an impossi- ble goal, but some legislators took it seriously. The state abandoned its old testing system to smooth the transition to the Common Core, but NCLB is technically still in effect. So the big question is: Will the clock be reset when it comes to Program Improvement (PI) levels and sanctions? The answer: Schools are stuck in current PI lev- els, which means that in 2016, when Common Core accountability kicks in, schools could theoretically move to the next level and more sanctions. Unless the law changes. "It would be very desirable if someone could introduce a new law to address accountability as it relates to the new standards and the new set of as- sessments," says Deb Sigman, deputy superintendent of the California Department of Education. "You have a law that was meant to be reauthorized, and it has not been revisited since 2001. You have schools frozen at PI levels. Without new accountability or assessments taken into consideration, how meaning- ful are those levels? People are confused about these things. It's complicated stuff ." are we perfect yet? perfect perfect yet? yet? So it's 2014 — By Sherry Posnick-Goodwin Laniece Greenwood learns about clouds in Lisa Denmon Mays' class in Inglewood. 9 V O L U M E 1 9 I S S U E 2

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