From the California Department of Education:
The 2005 Similar Schools Ranks that were released by the California Department of Education (CDE) on March 21, 2006 are being revised because of a calculation error.
The error is limited to only the 2005 Similar Schools Ranks. The 2005 Statewide Ranks, Academic Performance Index (API) Base, and Growth Targets are unaffected.
The error was caused when the variable other/unknown ethnic was inadvertently left out of the calculations. The Similar Schools Ranks compare a schools API to 100 schools on the following characteristics: pupil mobility, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, percentage of fully credentialed teachers, percentage of English learners, average class size, whether a school operates a multi-track year-round educational program, percentage of grade span enrollments, percentage of students in gifted and talented education program, percentage of students with disabilities, percentage of reclassified fluent-English! -proficie nt students, percentage of migrant education students, and percentage of students in reduced class size for a full day.
The 2005 Similar Schools Ranks for all schools have been removed from the CDE Web site and will be reposted in approximately three weeks as the recalculated data become available.
There’s a whole lot of school districts across the state quietly taking back a whole lot of cheering.
Well, the SPJ have posted the winners of the 2006 news writing awards (I know, because a lot of the Daily Press winners don’t write anything but), and Peter is on the list, as are Stuart Kellogg, Gretchen Losi, Kate Rosenberg and LeRoy Standish.
Congratulations to everyone and I’ll see you all in Riverside in May.
Today, I have been at the Hesperia Star two years. In three more months, I will pass my longest newspaper writing gig to date, which was my tenure at the Potomac News.
Pageant winner roommate with former Miss Hesperia turned Miss Apple Valley
By BEAU YARBROUGH
Staff Writer
What makes Marisa Yepiz an unlikely pageant queen in many ways makes her a perfect Miss Hesperia.
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As mentioned previously, the SPJ is currently posting their 2006 award winners as the names come in, but stripped of the information of exactly what they’ve won until May 13’s award ceremony in Riverside.
The list is still very incomplete: I’m not seeing any Daily Press reporters listed (other than for sports), and it’s so unlikely that no one from their newsroom would win an award, I can only conclude that only sports, layout and photo awards have been judged so far.
Having said that, my name just appeared on the list (notably on April Fool’s Day). For what, I don’t know. I did submit a photo submission and a sports story submission this year, so that could be it. Crazier things have happened: I still can’t get over winning a 2005 award for police coverage for what was, really, a feature story that simply happened to be about volunteer police officers.
I’m sure we’ll see the likes of Gretchen Losi, Peter Day, Kate Rosenberg, Kathleen Stinson, Stuart Kellogg and Tracie Troha on that list before long as well.
In the meantime, I can shift to deciding on what I want to eat this year. I’m thinking the gorgonzola chicken at the moment, since salmon can either be done so right or so very, very wrong.
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