Valley schools outperform LAUSD

San Fernando Valley schools are continuing to improve and generally outperform others in Los Angeles Unified, county and statewide on key student achievement tests, according to a new report released Monday.

The LAUSD's Valley schools and the Burbank, Glendale and Las Virgenes school districts all scored better than the LAUSD's average Academic Performance Index score of 655 in 2006-07, according to the report by researchers at Cal State Northridge. Naush Boghossian in the Daily News.

All but east San Fernando Valley schools also scored higher than county and state averages, said Daniel Blake, director of the San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, which issued the report.

"Education is very important to the Valley and the consequences of that is that particularly in the smaller districts, they can really move and produce great results," Blake said.