Parents do not understand the performance of schools in California. Newsom’s plan to allow it

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During his first year, as governor Gavin Newo, he created an integral system of state -level educational data one of his main priorities, but his launch is slowing down.

In 2019 he started The country’s data system to the longMany years of initiative to collect data from pre -school schools, schools, universities and job training programs. The result was a series of public panels that observe the progress of students. Several years later, during his campaign to recover from 2022, “From the cradle to the competition” was the motto of his educational platform.

“It was an emblematic initiative of the governor,” said Alex Barrios, President of the Partnership for Educational Results, a non -profit organization dedicated to collecting educational data. “You would think that taxpayers would ask,” Where is this? “

Initially, the Cradle to Career team indicated that the public would have access to some data on Spring 2024Mainly through a website that will show the progress of students from specific school districts during their university stage and their first years of work. Subsequently, the CRADLE TO CARER team updates the graph to indicate that the data will be publicly available in Autumn of 2024 Now Angelica Palomar, a spokesman for the data project, said the first data panel would be publicly available this spring, although he did not specify a date.

Palmar said the first stage of the project is almost ready to start and that the delays are due to excessive caution with the personal lives of the students. For example, he pointed out that certain populations, such as rural areas or certain racial or ethnic groups, are so small that it is easy to understand someone’s identity. Federal law prohibits schools from sharing students’ personal data.

“We prioritize the security of the data system, guarantee confidentiality protection and provide related information that is accurate and reliable before we can make our instruments available to the public,” he said.

The State Department of Technology, which periodically inspects IT projects, says the CRADLE data system needs “Instant corrective action “Because of your delayed schedule.

Once published, the data system “from cradle to career” can redefine parents and students’ decisions and generate significant changes in policies. With these data, parents can see the long -term results of university education and employment in the local school area of ​​their children. School and university advisers could give more accurate advice to students on their future and state programs, such as El Calkids Supply Ahorros ProgramThey could use data to identify possible beneficiaries.

Lack of adequate data system

Before the launch of Cradle to Career, California was “one of the few countries without a student data system that can answer important questions about the educational process and the impact of work education and income,” said AA AA said report of the California Institute for Public Policy in 2018.

Kentucky data system It already allows this type of analysis and is the classic example of good educational data, said Iwunze Ugo, a researcher at the institute. He acknowledged the progress of California after the 2018 report.

Since 2019, the state has appointed more than $ 24 million in the project. The CRADLE data system for the competition has become an official state entity, with a team of 25 people, 21 members of the Board of Directors and two advisory councils of 16 members. Hugo said that, unlike other countries, California has made the participation of the Community a central element of the data instrument: the state is launching a multi -year campaign, exploring the communities, both in Spanish and English, throughout the country regarding possible uses and concerns about their data and the way they will be presented.

Cradle to Career has signed data exchange agreements with 16 other government agencies, such as the California Department of Education and the California Labor and Working Agency and has persecuted more than One billion data points about the education of students and the results of labor.

At a meeting of the Board of Directors in February, Cradle a Carrera employees presented a progress report that describes more than 20 achievements, each with a cross. The only blank field in the check list was the last: The official start of the first data panelS

In his opening words, the president of the Board of Directors of Cradle to Career Gavin Payne did not admit the delay; None of the council members did it openly.

Mary Ann Bates, Executive Director of the Cradle Data System in a professional career, briefly referred to the delay of her statements to the Council, stating that her office is committed to publishing the first data batch and “studying all options for keeping the contractor” some delays and waste of time. “When asked by Calmatters to clarify his comments, Palomar, a Cradle spokesman in a professional career, said Deloitte was the contractor, but refused to specify why he could be responsible for these delays.

Can the data be “used” school districts?

Although its scope is unprecedented in California, many of the characteristics of the Cradle data system for a professional career are not new. The data already exists, although in some places they are difficult to find and some groups have already begun to cooperate to analyze common trends.

The Non-Profit Barrios Organization, a partnership for educational results, has received over $ 13 million since 2012 to help create and operate Cal-Pass Plus, which allows consumers to see the university outcomes of students in California school. However, Cal-Pass Plus is only available to school and university researchers and administrators, and most major and high school areas are not required to participate. However, in a certain year, Cal-Pass Plus has records of more than 70% of public high school students, Barios said.

The compulsory data exchange system, such as the cradle to the competition, is more difficult to implement, he said. “School districts do not want the data to be used against them.” For example, he mentioned that fear is that residents and legislators can blame a preparatory school for low university registration instead of working to improve it. Palmar said the current delays are not due to the reluctance of the school districts, as the data already exist and shared widely.

Barios said his organization had stopped managing Cal-Pass Plus a few years ago, partly because he suggested that he would soon be outdated.

“We are moving away from all this thinking that the state will do it,” he said. “But it obviously didn’t happen.”

This article was originally published by CalmattersS