As schools remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, created online dashboards that show the progress of its plans to reopen schools across multiple grade levels.
The purpose of the dashboards is to provide transparency to the community, according to the school district’s website. BUSD spokesperson Trish McDermott added that since its campuses were shut down, the school district has been looking to reopen schools due to a concern that remote learning has not been similar to in-person experiences.
“We know that students who are currently engaging in distance learning miss some of the important elements of school, including the social and emotional experience of attending school in person with peers and friends out on the playground and in close proximity to teachers and other educators,” McDermott said.
Independence High School had a lower graduation rate than California s statewide graduation rate at 53 percent, in comparison to California’s graduation rate of 88.7 percent for the 2017-2018 school year, according to the California Department of Education. According to CDE data, graduation rates continue to indicate an increase in disproportional academic performance between White, Black, Latino, and English learner students. According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, in the 2017-2018 school year, of the 50 states where data was collected, students with disabilities were at the bottom of 4-year high school graduation rates by student group. Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says “taken together, prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current ELs and non-ELs and that these inequities explain achievement gaps in middle and early high school” in The Effects of English Learner Classification on H
Liberty High School had a lower graduation rate than California s statewide graduation rate at 72.2 percent, in comparison to California’s graduation rate of 88.7 percent for the 2017-2018 school year, according to the California Department of Education. According to CDE data, graduation rates continue to indicate an increase in disproportional academic performance between White, Black, Latino, and English learner students. According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, in the 2017-2018 school year, of the 50 states where data was collected, students with disabilities were at the bottom of 4-year high school graduation rates by student group. Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says “taken together, prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current ELs and non-ELs and that these inequities explain achievement gaps in middle and early high school” in The Effects of English Learner Classification on High