Smarter Balanced tests are given in grades 3 to 8 and only in grade 11 in high school, so there is a two grade-level gap in measuring students’ academic progress. Long Beach and West Contra Costa ...

The school board for District 97 will be voting on an important part of middle-school math at its meeting on Dec. 10, and few people in the community have noticed. Specifically, the board will be ...