California: San Diego student improvement the focu of ballot initiative
A new initiative looking to alter section 66 of the San Diego City Charter, which governs the San Diego Unified School Board and locks it at five elected members, may be on the ballot as early as November, its authors and supporters say. The San Diego Unified School District Accountability and Student Performance Initiative states that “the District voters are concerned with student performance in the San Diego Unified School District. As many as half of students in elementary and middle schools are not reading or computing math at grade level, with up to 80 percent of students of color failing to reach proficiency.”