Orange County Register

State suspends schools API test scores as it moves toward Common Core standards testing

The state is suspending, and may eliminate soon, the most common way that parents and the public look at school test scores. On Wednesday, the California Board of Education voted to suspend the ...
KTEN

API Scores Released For Oklahoma Schools

OKLAHOMA - The yearly Academic Performance Index (API) for Oklahoma schools has been released. The purpose is to measure the success and growth in schools and districts across the state. The index ...
Orange County Register

Blue Ribbon school contesting loss of API score

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 teacher was ...
Daily Breeze

API school test scores expected to vanish in California for 2 years — maybe forever

Real estate agents use them to tout the desirability of neighborhoods. Parents monitor them to choose schools. Principals live and die by them. But Academic Performance Index scores, the cornerstone ...