This article about the Wednesday, Nov. 9 school board meeting has been updated to include written public comments, submitted as of Wednesday afternoon, at the end of this article. Several
Creation of a “Fiscal Stabilization Committee” for Ojai Unified School District is on the agenda for the regular school board meeting to be held on Wednesday, Nov. 9, starting at
with the high accountability standard in a no child left behind or raise to the top despite large public opposition to the program. i was a principal for several years we had no accountability. last year we cut testing and i was very up saturday aboset ab- upset about it. we were competing with japan and other countries. if you ask any parent do you want to have proof that you will have excellent teacher and when you say how to you prove it? you have to look at achievement data. we have been doing that five-years. we use achievement data for teacher evaluation before there was any state or national we have done that as a matter of practice because it just makes sense. it also provide real time assessments of student s progress. my job has completely changed from a teacher being at the front of the room to me gearing