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Evergreen Named to California Honor Roll of Schools
Once again Evergreen has been selected as an Honor Roll school by the California Business for Education Excellence Foundation.
Sacramento -- California Business for Education Excellence (CBEE) announced
today that Evergreen Elementary School in Diamond Bar has again been named to the 2009 Honor Roll.
The 2009 Honor Roll includes 1,304 California public elementary, middle and high
schools that have been recognized by California’s business community for having
demonstrated consistent high student academic achievement and have made
significant progress toward closing achievement gaps among all their students. The
Honor Roll is made up of two different awards, the Star Schools Award (395 schools)
and Scholar Schools Award (909 schools). A full list of the Honor Roll schools can be
found at www.cbee.org.
“These schools are the bright spots of hope in efforts to raise student academic
achievement and close persistent achievement gaps,” said Kirk Clark, executive
director of CBEE. “By highlighting them, recognizing their achievement and giving
them a voice we hope other schools can learn from these proven practices and we can
begin to take their success to scale throughout the state.”
No other school recognition program in California uses hard data, individual school
and student subgroup performance data based on the California Standards Tests
and the California High School Exit Exam, to evaluate school academic performance.
It’s only by looking at this accurate data and evaluating students and schools based
on grade-level proficiency of the California standards, that educators, parents and
the public can thoroughly understand what is happening in our schools and ensure
that schools are on track to get all students to grade-level proficiency.
