2007 California Education Code Article 5. Program Evaluation

CA Codes (edc:35940)

35940.  (a) From funds appropriated for this purpose, the department
shall contract for an evaluator to perform all of the following:
   (1) Compose a progress report on the implementation of the
programs authorized under this chapter to be completed on or before
January 1, 2008.
   (2) Conduct a final evaluation to be completed by January 1, 2011.

   (3) Report to the Legislature and the Governor on the final
evaluation completed pursuant to paragraph (2) and, in that report,
make recommendations to continue, modify, or terminate the programs
by January 1, 2011, based upon the results in meeting the
measurements described in subdivision (b).
   (b) The evaluation of the effectiveness of the programs shall be
based on a comparison of the LAUSD and its component schools and
pupils in 2006 relative to the time of the evaluation of the LAUSD
and its component schools and pupils. The evaluation shall include,
but not be limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Whether schools participating in the Los Angeles Mayor's
Community Partnership for School Excellence, other schools in the
LAUSD, and the LAUSD as a whole accomplished the following:
   (A) Significantly improved pupil learning and academic achievement
based on the academic standards of the state, graduation
requirements, and other standards for assessing the achievement of
pupils.
   (B) Significantly improved graduation rates and significantly
reduced dropout rates.
   (C) Significantly reduced the academic achievement gap among
racial and ethnic groups, between pupils with exceptional needs and
pupils without those needs, and between English language learners and
pupils who are fluent in English, so that all pupils are attaining
similar, acceptable levels of academic achievement.
   (D) Provided parent satisfaction with the schools that their
children attend.
   (E) Ensured English language learner success.
   (2) Whether schools participating in the Los Angeles Mayor's
Community Partnership for School Excellence, other schools in the
LAUSD, and the LAUSD as a whole accomplished, and to what degree they
accomplished, the following:
   (A) Made all schools clean and safe places for pupils and school
staff.
   (B) Ensured that each pupil has a qualified teacher who has had
appropriate professional development for the one or more grades and
subjects that he or she teaches.
   (C) Ensured that each school has a principal who has had
appropriate professional development to improve his or her ability as
an educational leader to assist in improving teaching and learning
at the school to which he or she is assigned, in building strong
educational teams, and in promoting parental involvement and
community relations.
   (D) Ensured transparency in the fiscal affairs of the schools and
district.
   (E) Made parents, teachers, and other school staff full partners
in the decisions that affect schools.
   (F) Decentralized the district to reduce management bureaucracies
and to increase resources to schools and classrooms.
   (G) Ensured that class sizes are at or below statewide averages
for the corresponding grade levels.
   (H) Ensured that the district and schools are able to attract and
retain quality teachers.
   (I) Held the school community segments accountable for the
achievement of the above-described goals.