Video Describing CVESD Test Scores

By Norberto P. Salazar

I thought about producing a Video that would reflect my perceptions of what education looks like at the Chula Vista Elementary School District.

School Board of Trustees Election, Seat #5

Video Shots to include the following sites:
1. Chula Vista Elementary School District Offices on

"J" Street,

Video Shot #1: at the Chula Vista Elementary School

District Offices on "J" Street
a. The NCLB law, which came into effect in 2001, has demeaned and demoralized our teachers, students, parents, and staff through its punitive and pejorative testing measures for so long now, 5 years and counting, that it's time to say enough is enough.
b. I have here in my hands, the testing data for the CST's, the California Standards Tests, reflecting the AYP and API scores for our wonderful and beautiful School District of Chula Vista.

And I use those words to describe our school district because it is wonderful and beautiful. The commitment to excellence that our best and brightest teachers and staff possess, from the district office, right down to the classrooms in all of our schools, is beyond reproach. The high level of energy and enthusiasm that all of our parents and students exemplify when they are engaged in the practice of learning, throughout the district, is second to none. Why then are the schools testing scores in the East Side of Chula Vista better than the schools testing scores in the West Side of Chula Vista? Here are two maps showing the schools of the Chula Vista Elementary School District. The first map ranks the schools from highest to the lowest test scores in English / Language Arts. The second map ranks the schools from the highest to the lowest test scores in Math. You can easily see that the highest test scores, generally are achieved by the schools in the East Side, while the lowest test scores, generally are achieved by the schools in the West Side.

Video Shot #2: a school on the West Side of Chula Vista a. Now before we get to the test scores themselves, I would like to speak to you about our wonderful and beautiful schools and I refer to our schools as wonderful and beautiful because they truly are wonderful and beautiful schools.

I am standing here in front of __________ Elementary School from the West Side of the Chula Vista Elementary School District. Did you know that right inside of __________ Elementary School, we have the best and brightest teachers and staff that really and truly care about the health and welfare and academic achievement of the children and their parents who daily come here to learn. Did you know that the teachers and staff meet every day to strategize, plan and develop programs to meet the special needs of all the students and parents of this school. And that they carry out their tasks to the best of their ability and with the greatest intentions to help prepare our children for the future. The programs developed here by the teachers and staff are excellent programs that benefit all children. Why then are the test scores of the schools in the West Side lower than the test scores of the schools in the East Side?

Video Shot #3: a school on the East Side of Chula Vista a. Here, I am standing in front of ___________ Elementary School from the East Side of the Chula Vista Elementary School District. Did you know that right inside of __________Elementary School, we have the best and brightest teachers and staff that really and truly care about the health and welfare and academic achievement of the children and their parents who daily come here to learn. Did you know that the teachers and staff meet every day to strategize, plan and develop programs to meet the special needs of all the students and parents of this school. And that they carry out their tasks to the best of their ability and with the greatest intentions to help prepare our children for the future. The programs developed here by the teachers and staff are excellent programs that benefit all children.

Why then are the test scores of the schools in the West Side lower than the test scores of the schools in the East Side?

Video Shot #4: San Diego County Board of Education

a. Here I am standing in front of the San Diego County Board of Education on _________Rd., where I believe we can have some of our questions answered in reference to funding and education policy.
b. Why the difference in test scores? Because the funding sources are different. Did you know that California ranks nearly 50th in per pupil spending and class size. There are simply too many children in too few classrooms in our schools. But more specifically, the revenue / funding sources for the newer and wealthier East Side schools, far exceeds and is clearly more abundant than the revenue / funding sources for the older West Side schools, where the property values are not as high and the tax base is not as healthy. The revenue base, I believe is one of the fundamental reasons why test scores can differ between schools of the same district. But there is another reason and that reason has to do with education policy.
c. And that takes us back to the NCLB law, which came into effect in 2001, and which has demeaned and demoralized our teachers, students, parents, and staff through its punitive and pejorative testing measures for so long now, 5 years and counting, that it's time to say enough is enough.
d. The California Department of Education, through its State Board of Education dictates what happens to our schools through its misplaced testing programs. And the sad thing about these policies and procedures is that neither the wealthier schools on the East Side nor the disadvantaged schools on the West Side are immune to the horrible and negative effects of these punitive and pejorative testing measures being imposed upon our wonderful and beautiful schools and our innocent students and parents.

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English/Language Arts

'05-'06 CST/AYP Scores

by All Schools Ranking

Northwest Chula Vista	Northeast Chula Vista
School #s: 16, 19, 24,	School #s: 3, 6, 7,
25, 26, 30, 36	8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
38, 39	13, 14, 17, 20, 21

Southwest Chula Vista	Southeast Chula Vista
School #s: 28, 29, 31,	School #s: 1, 2, 4, 5,
32, 33, 34, 35, 37,	15, 18, 22, 23, 27
40, 41, 42, 43

http://www.Smartvoter.org is having a problem arranging the data of this graph which is supposed to reflect the four geographic areas of Chula Vista. You can picture the Chula Vista map in a square divided into four portions, i.e., Northwest CV, Southwest CV, Northeast CV and Southeast CV. Here is the narrative of the graph.

These are the English/Language Arts '05-'06 CST/AYP Scores by All Schools Ranking (See data below). In Northwest Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #16, #19, #24, #25, #26, #30, #36, #38, and #39. In Southwest Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #28, #29, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35, #37, #40, #41, #42, and #43. In Northeast Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #3, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #17, #20, and #21. In Southeast Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #1, #2, #4, #5, #15, #18, #22, #23, and #27. You can clearly see that located in Southwest Chula Vista, are the schools that experience less success than the schools located in Northeast Chula Vista.

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Mathematics

'05-'06 CST/AYP Scores

by All School Ranking

Northwest Chula Vista	Northeast Chula Vista
School #s: 16, 18, 20	School #s: 3, 4, 6, 7,
24, 26, 27, 29, 34, 39	8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
19, 22

Southwest Chula Vista	Southeast Chula Vista
School #s: 28, 30, 32,	School #s: 1, 2, 5, 9,
33, 35, 36, 37, 38,	15, 17, 23, 25, 31
40, 41, 42, 43

http://www.Smartvoter.org is having a problem arranging the data of this graph which is supposed to reflect the four geographic areas of Chula Vista. You can picture the Chula Vista map in a square divided into four portions, i.e., Northwest CV, Southwest CV, Northeast CV and Southeast CV. Here is the narrative of the graph.

These are the Math '05-'06 CST/AYP Scores by All Schools Ranking (See data below). In Northwest Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #16, #18, #20, #24, #26, #27, #29, #34, and #39. In Southwest Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #28, #30, #32, #33, #35, #36, #37, #38, #40, #41, #42, and #43. In Northeast Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #19 and #22. In Southeast Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #1, #2, #5, #9, #16, #17, #23, #26 and #31. You can clearly see that located in Southwest Chula Vista, are the schools that experience less success than the schools located in Northeast Chula Vista.

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Federal API Scores

'05-'06 by

All Schools Ranking

Northwest Chula Vista	Northeast Chula Vista
School #s: 14, 17, 21,	School #s: 3, 5, 6, 7,
23, 27, 28, 30, 36, 38	8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15,
16, 18, 24

Southwest Chula Vista	Southeast Chula Vista
School #s: 25, 29, 31,	School #s: 1, 2, 4,
32, 33, 34, 35, 37,	13, 19, 20, 22, 26
39, 40, 41, 42

http://www.Smartvoter.org is having a problem arranging the data of this graph which is supposed to reflect the four geographic areas of Chula Vista. You can picture the Chula Vista map in a square divided into four portions, i.e., Northwest CV, Southwest CV, Northeast CV and Southeast CV. Here is the narrative of the graph.

These are the Federal API Scores for '05-'06 by All Schools Ranking (See data below). In Northwest Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #14, #17, #21, #23, #27, #28, #30, #36, and #38. In Southwest Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #25, #29, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35, #37, #39, #40, #41 and #42. In Northeast Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #3, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #15, #16, #18, and #24. In Southeast Chula Vista, we find the schools ranked as, in order of success, #1, #2, #4, #13, #19, #20, #22, and #26. You can clearly see that located in the western portion of Chula Vista, are the schools that experience less success than the schools located in the eastern portion of Chula Vista.

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e. According to these English/Language Arts testing measures, all of the schools in the East Side of Chula Vista, fail 30% or more, of their children, as determined by these terrible state testing scores. The 2006 California Standards Test in the English/Language Arts, All Schools Ranking, the state testing measures concluded that at the Arroyo Vista Elementary School from the Chula Vista Elementary School District, one of the schools from the East Side, only 63.5% of the students at that school were able to achieve at the Proficient or Advanced level. This means that 36.5% of the students achieved at the levels of Basic, Below Basic and Far Below Basic.

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Scaled Scores
%	Grade	CST/AYP Score
90-100%	A	600
80-90%	B	Advanced
Proficient
70-80%	C

350
60-70%	D	Basic
Below Basic
50-60%	F	Far Below Basic

http://www.Smartvoter.org is having a problem arranging the data of this graph which is supposed to reflect the Scaled Scores on a Percentile ranking from 50% to 100%, relative to the grading scale, that all of us are familiar with, i.e., the grades from an "F" to an "A". Here is the narrative of the graph.

Students who achieve a 50% to 60% score on a test would receive an "F", i.e., Far Below Basic. Students who achieve a 60% to 70% score on a test would receive a "D", i.e., Basic and Below Basic. ("D's" and "F's" would generate a CST/AYP Score below 350.) Students who achieve a 70% to 80% score on a test would receive a "C", an 80% to 90% score on a test would receive a "B", and a 90% to 100% score on a test would receive an "A". Students receiving A's, B's and C's would be generating CST/AYP scores from 350 to 600, i.e., from Proficient to Advanced.

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This means that 63.5% of the children were achieving a "C" or better, and that 36.5% were achieving "D's or F's."

f. According to the Mathematics testing measures, all of the schools in the East Side of Chula Vista, fail 25% or more, of their children, as determined by these terrible state testing scores. The 2006 California Standards Test in Mathematics, All Schools Ranking, the state testing measures concluded that at the Veterans Elementary School from the Chula Vista Elementary School District, one of the schools from the East Side, only 72.2% of the students at that school were able to achieve at the Proficient or Advanced level. This means that 27.8% of the students achieved at the levels of Basic, Below Basic and Far Below Basic. This means that 72.2% of the children were achieving a "C" or better, and that 27.8% were achieving "D's or F's."
g. According to the English/Language Arts testing measures, the lowest ranking school in the West Side of Chula Vista, fails 77.5% of its children, as determined by these terrible state testing scores. The 2006 California Standards Test in English/Language Arts, All Schools Ranking, the state testing measures concluded that at Harborside Elementary School from the Chula Vista Elementary School District, one of the schools from the West Side, only 22.5% of the students at that school were able to achieve at the Proficient or Advanced level. This means that 77.5% of the students achieved at the levels of Basic, Below Basic and Far Below Basic. This means that 22.5% of the children were achieving a "C" or better, and that 77.5% were achieving "D's or F's."
h. According to the Mathematics testing measures, the lowest ranking school in the West Side of Chula Vista, fails 67.3% or more, of their children, as determined by these terrible state testing scores. The 2006 California Standards Test in Mathematics, All Schools Ranking, the state testing measures concluded that at Harborside Elementary School from the Chula Vista Elementary School District, one of the schools from the West Side, only 32.7% of the students at that school were able to achieve at the Proficient or Advanced level. This means that 67.3% of the students achieved at the levels of Basic, Below Basic and Far Below Basic. This means that 32.7% of the children were achieving a "C" or better, and that 67.3% were achieving "D's or F's."

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2006 California Standards Test AYP Scores---English/Language Arts Chula Vista Elementary School District All Schools Ranking

School	Per Cent School Population
Achieving Proficient &
Advanced

1. Arroyo Vista	63.5%
2. Veterans	62.8%
3. Sunnyside	62.8%
4. Olympic View	62.0%
5. Heritage	61.8%
6. Marshall	60.5%
7. Casillas	60.4%
8. CV Hills	60.0%
9. Tiffany	59.5%
10. Salt Creek	59.2%
11. Discovery	57.6%
12. Allen	57.3%
13. Clear View	54.1%
14. Halecrest	53.5%
15. McMillin	52.5%
16. Rosebank	50.2%
17. Valley Vista	49.6%
18. Hedenkamp	49.4%
19. Cook	49.1%
20. East Lake	48.1%
21. Liberty	45.8%
22. Rogers	45.8%
23. Parkview	42.5%
24. Hilltop Drive	41.9%
25. Feaster-Ed	41.2%
26. Kellogg	39.6%
27. Valle Lindo	39.0%
28. Loma Verde	38.6%
29. Juarez-Lincoln	37.7%
30. Mueller	37.5%
31. Palomar	35.9%
32. Castle Park	35.4%
33. Finney	35.1%
34. Otay	34.3%
35. Los Altos	33.5%
36. CVLCC	32.9%
37. Rohr	32.5%
38. Rice	31.3%
39. Vista Square	31.2%
40. Silver Wing	31.0%
41. Montgomery	28.0%
42. Lauderbach	24.7%
43. Harborside	22.5%

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2006 California Standards Test

AYP Scores---Mathematics

Chula Vista Elementary School District

All Schools Ranking

School	Per Cent of School
Population Achieving
Proficient & Advanced

1. Veterans	72.2%
2. Olympic View	72.1%
3. Salt Creek	71.0%
4. Sunnyside	70.8%
5. Arroyo Vista	70.5%
6. Casillas	69.4%
7. Tiffany	69.3%
8. Allen	68.7%
9. Heritage	67.7%
10. Marshall	67.4%
11. CV Hills	66.8%
12. Halecrest	64.8%
13. Valley Vista	63.6%
14. Discovery	63.5%
15. McMillin	63.0%
16. Cook	59.8%
17. Parkview	58.9%
18. Feaster-Ed	58.9%
19. Clear View	58.8%
20. CVLCC	58.6%
21. Liberty	56.4%
22. East Lake	56.2%
23. Hedenkamp	55.8%
24. Rosebank	53.4%
25. Rogers	52.8%
26. Hilltop Drive	52.1%
27. Kellogg	51.5%
28. Finney	49.5%
29. Mueller	48.9%
30. Otay	48.2%
31. Valle Lindo	47.8%
32. Rohr	47.2%
33. Juarez-Lincoln	46.3%
34. Vista Square	45.7%
35. Loma Verde	44.8%
36. Los Altos	42.7%
37. Palomar	42.4%
38. Castle Park	42.2%
39. Rice	41.4%
40. Silver Wing	39.3%
41. Montgomery	39.2%
42. Lauderbach	33.5%
43. Harborside	32.7%

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2006 Federal API Scores

Chula Vista Elementary School District

All Schools Ranking

School	API Score
1. Arroyo Vista	852
2. Olympic View	851
3. Marshall	845
4. Heritage	844
5. Sunnyside	843
6. Salt Creek	842
7. Allen	836
8. Discovery	834
9. CV Hills	832
10. Tiffany	828
11. Halecrest	824
12. Casillas	822
13. McMillin	816
14. Cook	801
15. Clear View	797
16. Valley Vista	792
17. Rosebank	788
18. East Lake	784
19. Hedenkamp	784
20. Parkview	763
21. Feaster-Ed	762
22. Rogers	758
23. Hilltop	754
24. Liberty	752
25. Otay	743
26. Valle Lindo	742
27. Mueller	733
28. CV Lrng. Center	725
29. Juarez-Lincoln	725
30. Kellogg	725
31. Loma Verde	725
32. Palomar	717
33. Rohr	717
34. Finney	711
35. Castle Park	710
36. Vista Square	710
37. Los Altos	705
38. Rice	691
39. Silver Wing	691
40. Montgomery	685
41. Lauderbach	650
42. Harborside	649
43. Veterans	NO SCORE

Raise your hand if you believe that wealthy corporations steal workers pensions? Raise your hand if you believe that wealthy corporations pay all of their taxes? Raise your hand if you believe that wealthy corporations receive corporate welfare? Raise your hand if you believe that wealthy corporations steal our children's education?

Well, if you don't believe that wealthy corporations steal our children's education, then how do you account for the fact that if wealthy corporations paid their fair share of taxes and stopped receiving corporate welfare, we could increase California's per pupil spending by $1,000 to $2,000 dollars per student and we could reduce California's class size teacher student ratios. That would improve student academic achievement!!!

You might ask, "How do wealthy corporations steal our children's education?"

Raise your hand if you believe that wealthy corporations control our democratic republic through the control of our democratically elected government.

Raise your hand if you believe that wealthy special interests like the drug giants, the insurance industry, and HMO's have been successful in blocking efforts to help consumers buy affordable prescription drugs, and increase access to affordable health care.

Ergo!!! Because wealthy corporations through their control of our democratically elected government don't pay their fair share of taxes and because wealthy special interests like the big oil companies, the drug giants, the insurance industry, and HMO's, through their control of our democratically elected government, are able to block efforts to help consumers buy affordable prescription drugs, and increase access to affordable health care, we the citizens of the community, the consumers, end up paying out of our pockets, the taxes which wealthy corporations don't pay and the increase cost of medical care. The consequence here is that there is less money available for education funding.

Raise your hand if you believe that wealthy corporations and wealthy special interests are stealing our children's education.

You might ask, "What happens when wealthy corporations and wealthy special interests steal our children's education?"

This school board election is not about 5 teachers at Castle Park Elementary School whose due process rights were violated. The teacher's union contract resolved that issue. This school board election is not about a popular Principal, that everyone loved and who was transferred from Heritage. The Superintendent is hired by the school board to make those tough personnel decisions and the Brown Act by law keeps those proceedings confidential.

This school board election is about the education of all of our children in the district.

Here's what happens!!!

Please see above the AYP/API scores for the school year '05 to '06, reported to the Chula Vista Elementary School District / Board of Education on August 15, 2006.

Voter turn-out is very problematic!

In the last 2005 election cycle, when Schwarzenegger found out who he was really dealing with, the electoral turn-out was 35% of the registered voters, 35%. This is unacceptable!!!

Of the 1,346,000 Registered voters in San Diego County, only 35% voted to implement these terrible, punitive and pejorative state testing measures that can only serve to demean and demoralize our teachers, students, parents and staff. We need for the voices of reason, respect and dignity to be heard. Everyone should be outraged at what the state testing measures and procedures are doing to our schools.

The NCLB is up for reauthorization in 2007. We need to look at growth models. It would be much better to teach a child some knowledge and information to a high level of mastery, test that child for retention of the same knowledge and information, and then reward our students for the progress made by accepting them for who they really are; fine, up-standing and dignified citizens of our community. After the rewards and the accolades, providing them with more funding to improve their academic achievement would be the right path to take so that the learning could continue. The current system of testing and the current system used to account for per pupil spending and class size ratios, that we have in place today, are not working. We all need to stand up, take note of this and work towards fixing this broken system of testing, per pupil spending and class size ratios.

Voter Confidence in Local, State and Federal Gov't is at an all time LOW!!! We have to get out and vote our conscience!!! We know that our schools are being mistreated and we need to fix that. But how can we, when we know that as individual voters, each one of our votes is so weak that nothing becomes of those votes. It's like they vanish into thin air.