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In the past, I have calculated UC admittance rates for schools in Los Angeles. I take the UC admit raw numbers, and compare it with the 12th grade enrollment numbers from that year, and publish a percent. I did it for 2015 and 2016. I’ve been meaning to do an update for the most recent […]

This morning, PUC iPrep closed its doors. It had been on the brink of collapse for weeks, and watching this happen in slow motion has been extraordinarily heartbreaking to follow this story on the Eagle Rock Facebook group. Why did they close? On their websites, they state “Enrollment is the largest source of funding for […]

I started this blog about two years ago. And today, I am going to sign off for a long while. When I started this project, my daughter was 6 months old, didn’t really move around, napped a whole bunch, and fell asleep early. I also didn’t really have many extra-curricular activities at my school – […]

I do not like to be wrong, but sometimes I am. In an earlier post about PUC iPrep, a Mandarin and Spanish language immersion school opening in Eagle Rock this fall, I noted that their website and Facebook pages lacked Mandarin or Spanish outreach. There was no translation of the webpage or any of their […]

Today’s post has nothing to do with data. It is just something I noticed because I am deeply addicted to twitter (and you can follow me at @schooldatanerd) But seriously, LAUSD has so many twitter accounts! Of course, there is the main, @LASchools account. But, by my count, there are at least 20 other twitter accounts. […]

I guess people actually read this thing? Last night, I pointed out that PUC iPrep’s charter petition explicitly states that their outreach will be in English, Spanish and Mandarin, but that their website was only in English.  Here is a view of their website as of last night. By 4:00 PM today, the website has […]