Four Castro Valley Schools Recognized for Student Achievement

Schools receiving this distinction from California's business community have demonstrated consistent high student achievement and have made significant progress towards closing the achievement gaps among their students. The CBEE/JFTK-CA Honor Roll is made up of two different awards, Star Schools (214 schools) and Scholar Schools (697 schools). Unlike any other school recognition program, CBEE/JFTK-CA Honor Roll schools are selected by carefully analyzing individual school subgroup performance data. The four Castro Valley schools were recognized as Scholar Schools.

CBEE/JFTK-CA Scholar Schools are consistent high academic achievers and should be recognized for their hard work.

California Business for Education Excellence
The mission of California Business for Education Excellence (www.cbee.org) is to raise student academic achievement and close achievement gaps in California public schools by ensuring every student reaches a minimum of grade level proficiency. This is accomplished by providing a voice to high performing, high poverty public schools so that all schools can replicate their best practices.  Since 1998, CBEE has worked to focus businesses around a common agenda for better public schools and serves as the business community’s leading voice in education.

Just for the Kids-California
The non-profit organization Just for the Kids -- California (www.jftk-ca.org) provides a powerful on-line data and school improvement system free of charge to California’s public schools and communities. JFTK-CA promotes measurably improved academic achievement in public schools through focused use of achievement data, research and replicating effective school improvement strategies from across the state and nation.  The JFTK-CA school improvement system has become the largest longitudinally linked, student academic achievement database in California and is receiving three millions hits per month from California schools.