As
anyone who has seen our standard presentation knows, our goal
is to see Altadena's students move from their consistently very
low academic proficiency to seeing all Altadena students, without
regard to race or income, consistently achieving the highest
levels of academic proficiency in every school, grade, and subject.
Some
call our challenge "closing the academic achievement gap."
Others call it "the key civil rights challenge of our generation."
For us, it is the follow-through on what we have learned is
the truth behind our central hypothesis: that consistently high,
all-subjects academic proficiency is bound by neither race or
income, but by our ability to bring education's very repeatable
best practices home to Altadena.
As
we bear down on our goal, please know that we will continue
to work closely with the County Offices of Education and Registrar-Recorder
to keep tabs on the number of signatures that will be required
at the anticipated time of our filing of the petition for the
formation of an Altadena Unified School District. More news
on this in a future update, but in the meantime:
Happy
holidays, and a big thank you to our volunteers for all their
help!
