15 California Districts, Including in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, Warned for Neglecting Teacher Data Submission
Press release from Public Advocates:
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…Public Advocates, a statewide public interest, civil rights law firm and advocacy organization, wrote to 15 school districts* who failed to submit critical assignment and credentialing information on their teachers. The letter warned them of their obligation to provide and certify these numbers in the state’s educational data system and provided the updated consequences if they continue to fail to certify their data in accordance with the California Department of Education’s (CDE) deadlines.
California is facing a serious teacher shortage statewide. The data school districts provide are critical to seeing what student groups are most impacted by teacher mis-assignments, and vital to fixing the issue. Last June the CDE published the Teaching Assignment Monitoring Outcomes (TAMO) data for the second time covering the 2021-22 school year. As state and local leadership continue to address the needs of California’s students, this data will prove to be even more critical to understand where the state and districts should invest to attract, recruit, train, and support a diverse and prepared teacher workforce.
“Teachers are the single most important in-school influence on student learning. Monitoring school districts for teacher credentials and illegal assignments is critical to supporting all California students,” said Angelica Salazar, senior policy advocate at Public Advocates. “We reached out to the 15 districts that currently come up blank if you try to find their data on fully prepared teachers for the 2021-22 school year. This is unacceptable. We hope this warning will result in more troubleshooting and compliance in the future to ensure data transparency, support, and accountability for 100% of our districts.”
*The 15 school districts include Albany City Unified (Alameda), Bay Area Technology (Alameda), San Lorenzo Unified (Alameda), Calaveras Unified (Calaveras), Loleta Union Elementary (Humboldt), Lassen Union High (Lassen), Grace Hopper STEM Academy (Los Angeles), Montebello Unified (Los Angeles), Whittier City Elementary (Los Angeles), Round Valley Unified (Mendocino), Howell Mountain Elementary (Napa), Temecula Valley Charter (Riverside), Arcohe Union Elementary (Sacramento), Robla Elementary (Sacramento), Los Olivos Elementary (Santa Barbara)
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There are well over 200 California State regulatory agencies. You must answer to them or they will punish you. They have to justify their existence.
The reason that people no longer want to become teachers is because it is just plain too complicated. Teaching is the simple part. There is an agency in charge of everything they do. Plus… They could loose their job for using the wrong pronoun… Etc. Etc. Etc.
I was with you right up to that last part.
So… they won’t lose their job for using the wrong pronoun? That lost you?
Google it.
Yes, a teacher in a different state lost their job because they refused to use a student’s chosen pronoun. It wasn’t an error, it was a choice. They chose poorly.
Public school teachers have long been among the best compensated part-time workers in the state. They get excellent retirement benefits. They almost never have to work weekends, holidays late or late shifts. Most get summers off and it’s nearly impossible to fire them for poor performance. This was explained to me by a math teacher who was also my father.
When did your father retire? Teaching has changed, students have changed, families have changed, society has changed. Teaching is not easy, and good teachers I know work 50-60 or more hours per week. Its stressful work being a teacher who is also acting as a social worker, nurse, therapist, provider of food, showers, and clothing etc to the children in this county of high ace scores. If you start teaching later in life, they take away your social security you paid into for all the years you worked prior to being a teacher. Kids in the classrooms are stressed from home life, are hungry, and many are traumatized. There is more violence in the classroom. There is shortage of teachers now due to these conditions.
There are roughly a thousand school districts in California. That means that 98.5% are compliant with their reporting. Seems decent to me. Can anyone explain why this is a major and unacceptable problem especially if it is not a chronic problem with just these districts? It seems like a larger and more unacceptable problem is the proficiency (or lack of) of the students in California.
“Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity. We spur change through collaboration with grassroots groups representing low-income communities, people of color and immigrants, combined with strategic policy reform, media advocacy and litigation, “making rights real” across California since 1971.”
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Lolita Schools have had several complaints filed against them by Native American parents over the years. The last one about a year ago. Maybe a connection, maybe not? Maybe a slow news day?
I’m curious how long a period of non-compliance is required before getting on this list and what else, if anything, such as parent complaints, is looked at by this organization. Certified doesn’t mean qualified and it’s not so hard to cook the books and keep things hidden. Coastal Grove Waldorf Inspired Charter School in Arcata is a shining example of a local school/organization working overtime to keep their lack of services, unequal accommodations, and institutional prejudice against students and families in need out of the public eye. Bravo