Walnut Valley breaks 900 mark in 2011 API scores
Walnut Valley Unified was the only school district in the area to break the 900 mark in the 2011 API scores released on Wednesday. It rose five points from 898 to 503.
State Superintendent of Public Education Tom Torlakson announced that 49 percent of California's public schools now meet or exceed their Academic Performance Index (API) targets, a number representing a 3-point increase over last year. The 2011 API scores for schools and districts across the state were released Wednesday.
But at the same time, 913 additional schools in the state are threatened with being labeled as failures for not meeting federal NCLB standards, known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).
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