Nearly 90 Organizations Urge State Board of Education to Prioritize Equity in Accountability System

Nearly 90 Organizations Urge State Board of Education to Prioritize Equity in Accountability System

Joint Letter Sent to the State Board of Education

From civil rights groups and local social justice organizations including the National Council of La Raza, LULAC California and Asian Americans Advancing Justice to education groups and community organizations including the California State Parent Teacher Association, United Ways of California and Children Now, over 80 organizations joined Ed Trust–West in calling for a clear focus on equity in the new education accountability system. In a letter to the State Board of Education in anticipation of their meeting this week, the groups stressed that the system should help close opportunity and achievement gaps by:

setting ambitious, long-term goals for student achievement, including gap-closing expectations
including a distinct, robust measure of college and career readiness to make sure we graduate students equipped with 21st century skills and knowledge
expecting action from a school or district when the data points out gaps in opportunity and achievement

We will continue to keep you updated as the State Board makes important decisions for California’s 6 million K-12 students. A big thank you to the many organizations below that joined us to support these principles for an equity-minded accountability system. In addition to the joint letter, Ed Trust–West also sent this letter with additional feedback on specific State Board of Education proposals.

Advancement Project	After-School All-Stars
Alliance for a Better Community	Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles	Attendance Works
Bay Area Tutor	Black Parallel School Board
Brown Issues – Sacramento City College	Brown Issues – Sacramento State University
Building Blocks for Kids – Richmond Collaborative	CADRE
California Alliance of African American Educators	California Charter Schools Association
California Latino School Boards Association	California LULAC
California PTA	California Science Teachers Association
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy	CD Tech
Center for Ecoliteracy	Center on Race, Poverty & Environment
Central California Environmental Justice Network	Cesar Chavez Foundation
Chicano Latino State Employees Association	Children Now
Children’s Defense Fund – California	Coaching Corps
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)	Coleman Advocates
College Track	Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE)	DELAC de SBCUSD
Dolores Huerta Foundation	Educators 4 Excellence
EdVoice	Faith in Action Kern County
GEMAS Consulting	GO Oakland
GO Public Schools	GO West Contra Costa
Growing Up in Santa Cruz	GSA Network
Hmong Innovative Politics	HOLA
Inland Congregation United for Change (ICUC)	Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Coalition
LA Voice	Latino & Latina Roundtable of San Gabriel & Pomona Valley
Los Angeles Education Partnership	LULAC of the Inland Empire
LULAC of the Riverside	Mothers’ Club Family Learning Center
National Center for Youth Law (NCYL)	National Council of La Raza
Orange County Congregation Community Organization	Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE)
Parent Organization Network (PON)	Parent Revolution
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	Promesa Boyle Heights
Reading and Beyond	Reinvent South Stockton
Roberts Family Development Center	Sacramento Area Congregations Together (SacACT)
San Bernardino City USD District African-American Advisory Council.	San Diego Association of African American Educators
Somos Mayfair	South Stockton Schools Initiative
Stand Up	Student Success California
Students Matter	Teach Plus
The Avalos Foundation	The BlackBoard of West Contra Costa
The Campaign for College Opportunity	The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
The Village Method	Umoja
United Way of Greater Los Angeles	United Ways of California
Urban Strategy Group	Western Center on Law & Poverty
Youth Action Project, Inc.	Youth Together