For more than a decade, the Academic Performance Index has defined the public’s perception of a school. Parents relied on the three-digit number, tied exclusively to scores on standardized tests, to ...

This morning, the California Department of Education released the Academic Performance Index (API) scores of its schools. The API is comprised of several different measures, including the results of ...

The state is suspending, and may eliminate soon, the most common way that parents and the public look at school test scores. On Wednesday, the California Board of Education voted to suspend the ...

Members of the State Board of Education who favor replacing the three-digit Academic Performance Index with a “dashboard” of measurements highlighting school performance can count on the backing of ...

A school’s API score, which reflects students’ performance on standardized math and English tests, can also help predict whether students will qualify for admission to the UC or CSU system, a new ...