Big Fat Score

California’s Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) test scores have gone up every year for the last nine years, at a time when objective and secure national measurements such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the SAT have remained flat.

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Schools Had To Make Do With Less California’s major reductions to its public education institutions took another devastating toll on schools across the state in 2011, including the three Long Beach branches of education, which faced another year of heavy budget cuts.

It is the hope of the school staff that with support the students will do better on STAR tests and pass the high school exit exam which is given in English