6-29-08 The 2007 California State University system's Early Assessment Program is taken by the state's 11th-graders to determine their readiness for college-level work in English. The last results are from May 2007 informing students whether they meet the minimum standards for State Colleges.
The Los Angeles County average was 14% passing. A number of high schools such
as Granada Hills High School, part of the failed LAUSD system, had 35% passing.
Vasquez had a dismal grade of only 9% passing the English exam. 80% of
the its 11th-graders did take the exam.
The math exam is even worse. Only 20% of the students even took the exam and none passed it, but 5% were granted a "conditional" pass.
See state website http://eap2007.ets.org/Viewreport.asp select county as Los Angeles and District as Acton-Agua Dulce.
And now they want to add a $25 to $30 million bond and new tax to pay for a failing school, run by incompetent union leaders and an equally incompetent staff and School Board, which the community will defeat again.
Not 1 cent to fix the run down Agua Dulce School or to add the legally required bathrooms to Meadowlark School, which are doing a good job. The District has spent $300,000 on failed bond elections and $500,000+ on failed studies to get the bonds that the community has rejected 4 out of 4 times, setting a state record for failure.
The Board raised the transportation fees to bring the kids to school but continued to provide sports transportation for free. Most of the competitive sports system costs are paid out of the tax funds designed to pay for education, which Vasquez totally fails to provide.
Some of the Competitive sports costs are paid by well meaning residents but until the poor education results are fixed, no education tax dollars should be spent on competitive sports.