{"id":1750,"date":"2014-03-05T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2014-03-05T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:53:28","slug":"sf-gate-june-jordan-school-for-equity-gets-a-break-on-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/03\/05\/sf-gate-june-jordan-school-for-equity-gets-a-break-on-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Gate: June Jordan School for Equity gets a break on testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/author\/jill-tucker\/\">Jill Tucker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos by Mike Kepka<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/03\/kapkatucker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1751\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/03\/kapkatucker-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Kapka\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Normally at this time of year, teachers and administrators at San Francisco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=education&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22June+Jordan+School+for+Equity%22\">June Jordan School for Equity<\/a> would be starting to gear up for the standardized tests given to students early in the\u00a0spring.<\/p>\n<p>And the educators would be hoping that this time, unlike in years past, the school&#8217;s abysmal scores would really go up. But that won&#8217;t\u00a0happen.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Excelsior neighborhood high school will get a welcome reprieve from the predictable cycle of\u00a0testing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a practice year for California schools as the state transitions to a new computerized testing system based on the new Common Core curriculum adopted by most states. While students will take the new tests, the scores won&#8217;t count or even be reported to parents or the\u00a0public.<\/p>\n<p>For June Jordan, it wipes an ugly test-score slate clean and offers a shot at\u00a0redemption.<\/p>\n<p>District officials had high hopes for June\u00a0Jordan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/education\/article\/June-Jordan-School-for-Equity-gets-a-break-on-5283146.php#photo-5963915\">Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Jill Tucker Photos by Mike Kepka Normally at this time of year, teachers and administrators at San Francisco&#8217;s June Jordan School for Equity would be starting to gear up for the standardized tests given to students early in the\u00a0spring. And the educators would be hoping that this time, unlike in years past, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/03\/05\/sf-gate-june-jordan-school-for-equity-gets-a-break-on-testing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SF Gate: June Jordan School for Equity gets a break on testing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[72],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag","tag-jill-tucker"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}