(Photo: San Diego Unified’s Gino Flores announces the district is the only large urban school district in California to satisfy the No Child Left Behind Act. Ana Tintocalis/KPBS)
After a six-month review of test scores, the San Diego Unified School District was found to have met all of the federal requirements last year under the No Child Left Behind Act. District officials say they took a closer look at the numbers and found a big discrepancy. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has the story.
Last year federal education officials found the San Diego Unified failed to satisfy all of the academic targets under the No Child Left Behind Act. Districts that do not show academic progress for more than two years in a row face sanctions from improving its curriculum to a state take-over.
But San Diego district officials scoured last year's test results and found the scores of academically proficient special education students were not counted. The district's Gino Flores says that mistake skewed the district's results.
Flores: Kind of like how the tax people say, are you getting credit for all of your deductions? Well, in this case we didn't get credit for all of our deductions. And once we revisited that we were found to make adequate yearly progress.
San Diego Unified is now the ONLY large school district in California to satisfy the No Child Left Behind Act.
Ana Tintocalis, KPBS News.
