for the California Exit Exam is 93.3% in May of 2007. 2.6% better than the same time in 2006. The state still says that poor and minority students still have an achievement gap for this exam.

The San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Sacramento Bee also reports on this.

students with perfect attendance in the high school grades this year will have a chance to win a Pontiac G5 car. The winner is going to have to pay taxes, titles and fees though.

that Texas is going to be the state to rate preschools, day-care centers and Head Start programs on how well they prepare children for kindergarten.

The Dallas Morning News reports on this STEM type school. The school is going to have at least 60 percent of the student body that will be either economically disadvantaged, minority, female, limited English proficient, at risk of not finishing high school or from the first generation of their family to attend college.

wants teamwork to play a bigger role in how bonuses are paid out. Teacher in the area can opt of this program.

that high school juniors in the area have PSAE score that have dropped for the second consecutive year, but the article is citing students did better on average on the ACT exam.