But concerns by CTA and parents have significantly scaled down this year's program and she is concerned how it will affect her school's scores. Challenge Charter is sending information to student's employers and other schools to ask them to provide flexibility in scheduling so the students can come in to test. They are also planning some activities and parties for participating students. Paradise provides food for junior high students and includes motivations for high school students. Durham is reconfiguring their testing to put students with teachers that know each other so as to better reflect a student's abilities.
Plans are to put together a testing schedule to make students accountable.
Tim will e-mail information on the student award web site to members. Moving Toward a Standards-Based School Members discussed the recent Pulliam Group workshop put on by the county office. They expressed appreciation for the information they received and that the whole standards process was much clearer. They told Tim they'd like to see the Pulliam Group return so more Butte County educators could participate as many of the attendees were from other counties and there were no Chico educators in attendance.