Specifically, the new central office organization that realigns and restructures how the district's administration will do business, and the Academic Achievement Council that will advise on key assessment and accountability issues, are both designed to strengthen our schools. The classroom is where our teachers and students work and where teaching and learning takes place. It must become the crucible for a revitalized public education system in San Diego.
Student achievement is the key focus of everything the district is doing today.
Our commitment to improve the academic achievement of all our children takes both factors into account. It recognizes that our students bring different abilities and disabilities into our classrooms with varying degrees of readiness to learn and parental support to do so. This is particularly true in the case of our students who are doing poorly at school and are living in poverty at home. In San Diego these students disproportionately are Latino, African American and Indochinese . Student achievement in our district cannot and will not increase in any meaningful way until we close the achievement gap between these groups of students, on the one hand, and Asian and Caucasian students on the other .