What is the middle schools responsibility for preparing students for the California High School Exit Examination?
Each school is held accountable through the Academic Performance Index (API) for ensuring that California’s students continue to grow and achieve. The API formula, originally based on a single norm-referenced test, is adding components of the California Standards Tests which reflect how well students are attaining proficiency of the California Content Standard in math and English language arts. Ethically, it is the responsibility of a school to prepare all of its students for success. Since most of the standards on the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE) in math are learned at the middle school level of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, and the English language arts standards in middle school are foundational to 9-10 grade-level standards, middle school preparation is critical to student achievement on the CAHSEE. The CAHSEE legislation requires early identification of students at risk of failing the exit examination as early as seventh grade. It is chaptered into Educatio
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