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Santa Ana Unified board reviews 2025 California School Dashboard, notes gains and equity gaps
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Perez presented the 2025 California School Dashboard to the Santa Ana Unified School District board, highlighting district-level gains — including improved graduation and college-and-career indicators — while trustees pressed for disaggregated data, clarity on definitions, and plans to use LCAP and new state funds for literacy coaches.
Superintendent Dr. Lorraine Perez told the Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education that the 2025 California School Dashboard shows progress the district "hasn't seen in many years," with graduation and the college-and-career indicator moving into the state's green band and academic indicators such as English language arts and math improving from orange to yellow.
The presentation, billed as Dashboard 101, explained how the state assigns a 5-by-5 performance color (status) and a change measure (increase, maintained, decline), and how those combine to produce a card for each indicator. Perez warned against parsing colors alone and urged the board to use the dashboard as a starting point: "This data is not the end all be all... it actually gives us an overview of how we've done," she said, stressing the need to pair dashboard results with other leading indicators.
Why it matters: board members said the dashboard must inform budget priorities, staffing and school-level interventions. Trustee Mr. Bustos and others urged leaders to translate the board conversation into resources and supports at school sites so that teachers and families can…
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