The only problem with Theuerkauf is many uneducated and low income families that gentrification hasn't driven out yet.
Otherwise it is a very decent school. If more neighborhood families went there after being rejected at Stevenson, the school would thrive.
There is differentiated instruction, kids and teachers are very nice!

My daughter learned very little in Mountain View elementary schools. It was more like day care. The teachers always had such nice things to say about her since she was so well behaved and patient only they had no time to teach her anything. They were always focused on the underperforming kids that were causing trouble. Now she is doing remedial work in a private middle school trying to catch up. I'll be voting no on Measure B.

This dashboard is so hard to read and compare schools to each other.

From the article, "Similarly, Theuerkauf and Stevenson Elementary schools were both given a "green" score for performance in English Language Arts, even though 84 percent of students met the standards at Stevenson compared to only 45 percent at Theuerkauf".

84 and 45% meeting state standards gets the "same" score? Not in my book, regardless of improvement. I'm sorry to be harsh but I've had my daughter at a bad school in the past and now that she's at a good one and it's been so hard to catch up, I know how important knowing these numbers is. This is very misleading.

Handing more money to a school district (parcel tax Measure B) does not increase property values unless it improves the schools. Read the language of the parcel tax measure online at the school district's website or when it arrives with the sample ballots in early April. You will see that the money could be used more most anything and it would free up existing funds (over $60 million annual budget) for most anything else - including more administrators, higher administrator salaries and benefits and any crackpot education program (such as Teach To One) the new Superintendent may import. This is a school district that LEASES OUT SCHOOL SITES to pocket more money and then complains of overcrowding! The Google lease at Slater was just extended for a decade and apparently an even longer extension of the private school lease of Whisman School is up for school board approval.

@Gary,

I'm still waiting for an apology from the No campaign for the garbage left strewn about my neighborhood. Have the dignity and self-respect to take care of our neighborhoods and you might convince people. Otherwise, the No campaign just sounds like people who want lower taxes and and who don't care about improving their neighborhoods.

Yes on B!

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Lower taxes seem to be more important than anything else to some people.

Yes on B!

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What else? How about wasting more funds on a failing school system? Funds that could be used to "free up" more money for more administrators and higher salaries and benefits for administrators? If you want to educate the public about Measure B, you could take the flyer you claim to have received and tape it to everyone's front door along with your important points - such as your claim that it was not taped to your front door and, for that reason, people should vote for the measure.

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I'm not going to go around reposting the anonymous litter that was scattered throughout my neighborhood. That kind of disregard for the neighborhood seems pretty common with the No campaign, Trashing my neighborhood once seems like enough, but I guess it isn't for you? No apologies and encouraging even more litter.

Yes on B!

Yeah.. the API scores were way too convenient a way for people to actually compare schools.

The government didn't want that.. can't be highlighting where the problems are and all.

Let's go with a color coded system. Sort of like the terror alert system.

We're always "orange".. whatever the hell that means.

Now we can all be various shades of green. Keep the real data away from the masses.

Sadly, there is a trend to obfuscate the facts about school performance.

First, it was Common Core, changing what the kids were taught and how. Then they added Standards Based Grading, changing how they assess the Common Core teaching and its results. Now, they have added this Dashboard, changing how schools are compared to each other.

Change for the sake of change is not a good thing. In none of these cases have the two systems been compared directly and the people USING them been allowed to voice their opinion as to whether they find the change to THEIR advantage.

It seems that we have people making decisions that benefit THEM, rather than the end user of the data. These are uncontrolled experiments on the public, with one system replacing the other without a side-by-side comparison.

The end result? I think they are hiding the fact that our children will not understand the meaning of the word "obfuscate".