That streak ended and exposed an ongoing achievement gap with Thursday’s release of the 2013 Academic Performance Index, or API. The number of schools meeting the statewide target of 800 on the API ...

The API was a number, used for school accountability purposes, summarizing the performance of a group of students ... They only received academic growth targets for “numerically significant” student ...

California’s Academic Performance Index is the cornerstone of Gov. Gray Davis’ push to hold schools accountable for student performance. This release is the second to indicate whether schools ...

California’s Academic Performance Index is the cornerstone of Gov. Gray Davis’ push to hold schools accountable for student performance. This release is the second to indicate whether schools ...

California's annual ritual of ranking public schools by performance on standardized tests provided some pleasing news Wednesday: More schools are reaching the desirable mark of 800 points on the ...

The state Department of Education released today the federal No Child Left Behind and Academic Performance Index scores for all California public schools. The Academic Performance Index is a ...

LAUSD raised its average score on the Academic Performance Index to 694 in 2008-09 from 681 the year before – a 13-point gain that was just short of the statewide average. The statewide API ...

SACRAMENTO — The State Board of Education has agreed to suspend the Academic Performance Index, or API, this school year to allow for the development of a more comprehensive accountability system.

California ranks all schools on a 1,000-point scale called the Academic Performance Index (API), which is based on how well schools perform on a variety of tests. A score of 800 is considered ...

State officials today released a new report on the 2008 Academic Performance Index that shows Orange County schools once again beating state averages in test scores. Thirty county schools scored a ...