Articles in this issue

• APR shows some progress on closing achievement gap
  The 2007-08 California Accountability Progress Report points to a narrowing of the state’s persistent achievement gap, based on results from the state API, as well as federal AYP and PI.
• EADS Committee’s Successful Schools Project launches
  The Equity, Achievement and Diversity for Success Committee is addressing the need to provide ACSA members with a clearinghouse on schools that are successfully closing the achievement gap around the state.
• ACSA, CSBA sue SBE over algebra mandate
  ACSA’s Education Legal Support Fund has joined with the California Association of School Boards’ Education Legal Alliance to file suit against the State Board of Education over its recent mandate that all California eighth graders must be tested in Algebra 1.
• Career Technical Education Administrator of the Year
  ACSA’s 2008 Career Technical Education Administrator of the Year Alyssa Lynch is guided by the motto “Hard work pays off.” She strives to do what’s best for students every day as she leads the Santa Clara COE’s ROP-North.
• Education Coalition holds “Day of Action” on budget
  The Education Coalition held a statewide “Day of Action” on Sept. 5 to call on policymakers to pass a responsible budget that invests in students, schools and California’s future.