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1. Parents can read facts
to offset rumors that a school is "failing." AYP or PI news,
when it hits the papers, can rattle even your most informed parents.
The quickest way to calm rattled nerves is with facts. We make Fact
Sheets available by mid-September, within two weeks of the release
of the AYP, PI and API news. Order these reports early, and
pass them to parents at Back-to-School Nights.
2. Parents can use SARCs as one source of information
when choosing a school. Whether a parent is looking
at elementary, middle or high schools for the first time, it
helps to have facts in hand. The comparative data we publish
for you lets them see how the school compares to the average
elementary, middle or high school in the county and state.
3. Parents can decide where to move, based in
part on what they learn from your SARC. If you are recruiting
new families to your schools, SARCs are one of the most commonly
used information tools. Realtors are your allies in distributing
your SARCs to families considering a move to your area. But relocation
firms, military base service centers, and libraries are also
useful conveyors of your SARCs.
4. Parents who sit on your Site Council can use
SARCs for planning. The SARC is useful for school
level information, and some cohort level results. While it is no
substitute for student level testing data, it does help Site
Councils see how their schools compare during planning time.
With teachers and students like yours, are your students scoring
close to comparable schools in your county?
5. Parents can encourage their college-bound kids
to include their high school's SARC when applying to college. It
helps admission committees when they can see the applicant within
the context of their high school. For instance, if a high school
offers just two AP courses, and an applicant to college takes
both of them, this is a good signal.
6. Parents active in PTAs or PTOs can now use
SARCs to see if their school is getting a fair allocation of funds
and qualified teachers. With the Williams report
on teacher misassignments and vacancies, and the new SB687 report
on teacher salaries and school expenditures, the variation in resources
among schools is far easier to see.
7. Parents can see the rate at which high school
graduates have been enrolling in public colleges in California. Because
our SARCs include information from the California Post-Secondary
Commission on college enrollment, we offer estimates of the
rate at which graduating seniors move on to community colleges,
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