Re: “School breaks 900 API mark,” Aug. 31.Why this incessant need to associate high scores with academic achievement? High scores are fine and dandy, but what does it really prove?

Glendale Unified schools’ scores on the Academic Performance Index were mixed this year, according to data released by the California Department of Education on Thursday. Overall, the district ...

More California schools are performing well on the state Academic Performance Index than ever before, with 27 percent -- 2,396 out of 8,851 public schools that posted an API -- scoring 800 or ...

Scores come from standardized tests and high school exit exams the year prior. The state’s board of education has an API score of 800 as the target to which all schools should aspire to meet or ...

ORANGE – Orange Unified officials are preparing to contest the state’s decision to strip Fairhaven Elementary School of its 2013 Academic Performance Index score, invalidated because a … ...