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 ...

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 ...

Things are looking hopeful for the closure of the academic achievement gap in San Jose and the effectiveness of its education teams. The California Board of Education released the 2009-10 ...

Say farewell to the API as you know it. Welcome to new era of accountability, with at least a couple years of confusion in between. The release Thursday of the results on the state’s Academic ...

More than half of Humboldt County schools have nearly reached or surpassed the state’s test target score of 800, a release of the annual Academic Performance Index base score showed Thursday.