Encourage folks to go to the District web site under the Board of Trustees section, and read the report for themselves. Link: Web Link

Very promising progress at the lower grade levels. Also great to see a 12% year-over-year improvement in ELA scores at Monta Loma, one of the biggest movements across the whole data set.

Here are the links to the actual documents shared with the board in the meeting:
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And the audio of the actual board meeting when results were discussed:
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And the board's Q&A for this meeting:
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Well, I guess all is well in MVWSD because Wheeler can find no fault. She is doing Great after 16 years on the school board. The MVWSD achievement gap is also doing GREAT. What more to ask for? Some kids are going on to "elite 4 yrs collages" - we should all be just happy! Like - real happy Happy!

And is it so unpredictable now, that there are more than 200 Hispanic families, that will stand up and sign up for a chance at a charter school like a new Bullis Charter School version 2 in Mountain View?

Wheeler brings BCS#2 by her continued ignorance of how standardized data works, and how to change the course of the ship that she has helped lead for almost 16 years.

Patrick, I'm so real happy Happy that you have found one good data point (or 3) to latch on to.

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@Kyle

Please don't get carried away with your stereotypes. Many families struggle in this area for a variety of reasons. We are Mexican and we are doing great here. My spouse and I both have advanced degrees, we both work for prominent high tech companies here in Mountain View and our children are doing great in school. We know first hand the value of a good education and how it can lift someone out of poverty. We have many opportunities in life that we never would have had without school. We make sure our children know this as well and as a result they are doing better in school than many Asian and Caucasian families around us. Are we an exception? Maybe. But we have other Latino friends in the same situation, so maybe we won't be the exception for long.

With these kinda scores how can this district justify increases in salaries.

MV teachers are some of the highest compared to the rest of the nation. Would have expected better results.

Thank you @Mistral Parent from Old Mountain View. Those links, especially the meeting audio link, do a great job confirming the reporter's option on the most informative Trustee Ellen Wheeler quotes. Here is another "praise everyone involved" but more to the BELIEF not Data direction of her comments, and past 'leadership': "there is a lot of Belief that is associated with that" (the staff wishy washy report). (Wheeler at 2:32:20)

Yes - Ellen has a lot of BELIEF. She does not care much about how real data is used, to test hypothesis or one new paid consultant scheme against another.

The MVWSD is spending and spinning SO MUCH ON CONSULTANTS now, and so little of it's budget on actual salaries for classrooms, that it needs to ask for a Legal WAVER from the state (the Boards Q&A for this meeting - thanks again @Mistral). What happened to more teachers for the lagging schools K-3rd? What happened to Smaller class sizes for the Title 1 poor and lagging kids and teachers? Why bring consultants for all - when K-3 classrooms for the poor and struggling and VASTLY UNDERACHIEVING STUDENTS are packed, beyond what Los Altos general classrooms hold?

Maybe, because Wheeler's BELIEF is more consultants. more packed poor kid classrooms, is Good, because "praise everyone involved" is necessary. (audio at 2:48)

That's why I would bet - BCS#2 will be opening, in the next school year, with poor kid families abandoning Wheeler's MVWSD by the hundreds!