Grad Rates in SLO County Continue to Shine

by Dan Peverini | Aug 22, 2018 | Educational Support Services

Graduation Rates for the 16-17 4 Year Cohort group were recently released.  The methodology for computing graduation rates has changed from previous years due to a federal audit.  As part of this process, three significant changes were implemented for calculating 2017... read more

Updates from CDE

by Dan Peverini | Aug 17, 2018 | Educational Support Services

The start of the school year is always full of anticipation and preparation as we ready ourselves to make a difference for our SLO county students. For some of you, classrooms are in full swing as this is published. We are excited to deliver the ESS Missive each week... read more

Impacting Student Outcomes Throughout Our County

by Dan Peverini | Jun 12, 2018 | Educational Support Services

Education in California has been going through many changes and shifts in the past few years.

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Absenteeism

by Dan Peverini | Jan 29, 2018 | Educational Support Services

In the release of the California School Dashboard data in December, chronic absenteeism was included as a status-only indicator.  The data showed that, as a state, 1 in 10 students are chronically absent from school.  Looking at different groups of students showed the... read more

Improvement Science

by Dan Peverini | Sep 22, 2017 | Educational Support Services

The Carnegie Foundation has been developing and working on Improvement Science in Education for a number of years.  Their research and ideas are supportive of our quest to continuously improve, and measure the effectiveness of, the work we do in schools and districts.... read more