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COMMON CORE

TECHNOLOGY PROJECTPhases 2 and 1L

School Construction Bond

Citizens Oversight Committee

Recommendations to theLAUSD Board of Education

January 14, 2012

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Why Am I Here Today?

The BOCs recommendation to the Board in regardto CCTP Phases 2 and 1L are complexand evolvedover time

Unfortunately, the BOC Resolution in the Board

Agenda Package, from our November meeting, hasbeen superseded by the one from our Decembermeetingwhich was circulated yesterday

At the November meeting, there were manyunresolved issues

By the December meeting, these had been allresolvedwith one important exception

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Tablets for Spring 2014 Field Test

The original Board Report recommended 67,480iPads so that all grade 3-11 students could take twotest of approximately four hour each

In November, CDE changed the testing requirement

to each grade 3-8 and 11, and ~5% of grade 9-10students, taking one approximately four-hour test

The tablet requirements were recalculated to

38,535which is the maximum that BOC nowrecommends be authorized for procurement

Staff should return to BOC and Board for additionalauthorization for Spring 2015 testing after the

results of the 2014 test, and the Evaluation, are in

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Why Not Buy 67,480 Devices Now?

(continued)

Cost of security and storage

Devices will be that much older before they are

assigned to individual students

Results of Evaluation may recommend other

hardware

While it has been stated that these devices will beused for academic purposes, they will not have

Pearson contentand if the primary purpose of a

larger buy is academic, that should be so stated

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CCTP Evaluation

BOC recommends that the responsibility for

managing the CCTP Evaluation be assigned to theOffice of the Inspector General

OIG, reporting to the Board, is independent of theSuperintendent, which will protect the Evaluationreport from accusations that the results wereinfluenced

OIG is the sole District entity that has, as a key

portion of its professional training and experience,the conduct of performance auditseconomy,efficiency, and program resultsin accordance withthe GAOs Government Audit Standards

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Do We Know That 38,535 Will Be Enough?

Based on BOC staffs extensive analysis, we have a

very high degree of confidence it will be.

The 38,535 is from District staff analysis and:

Did not consider that anyexisting desktops, laptops, or

tablets could be used for the Field Test Includes allocations of many carts to schools where it is

known now that will not be any additional requirements

for test-taking devices

Is based on assumption that devices will be used for two

hours/day in the morning only; if needed to respond to a

specific emergency, capacity could be quickly doubled

simply by adding a two-hour afternoon session

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Do We Know That 38,535 Will Be Enough?

(continued)

We believe that LAN/WiFi access with sufficientcapacity and reliability, and the specific school-based test taking plans, which are now underway,

are far more significant concernsand that havingmore tablets will be, at best, of only minorassistance in resolving such issues

BOC staff analysis shows that there are likely atleast 100 carts that could be eliminated from the1,101 carts in the lower 38,535 Field Testcalculation, but we recommend 38,535 as a not-to-

exceed

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Attachment C Issues

Phase 1 and 2 Schoolsalready with one-to-one

tabletsallocated additional Field Test tablets

No consideration of devices already at schools

Allocations to Primary Centers and other schools

with no Field Test taker grades

Allocation of carts by Location Code, rather than

campus, which leads to surpluses and inequities

No allocation to some schools with students in the

test-taking grades that had been erroneously shown

with no students (only two known cases)

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Phase 1 & 2 School on Attachment C

Phase 1 Schools:

Amino Westside (shown on page 3 of Attachment C)

Apple Academy (page 3)

Magnolia Academy 3 (page 18)

Magnolia Academy 4 (page 18)

Phase 2 Schools:

Celerity Nascent Charter (page 7)

Crenshaw Arts-Technology (page 8)

Westside Innovative School House (page 30)

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No Consideration of Devices Already at Schools

Virtually all schools have computer labs and many

have laptop and/or tablet cartshowever, their usefor Field Test must be carefully evaluated against

on-going academic uses during the six-week Field

Test Period, as well as suitability for Field Test. Some schools have very significant on-campus

resources now:

Ivanhoe ES, where all grade 4-5 students have one-to-one take-home laptops and there are many devices that

third grade Field Test takers may be able to utilized

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Some schools have very significant on-

campus resources now (continued)

Huntington Park HS, allocated 245 tablets (page 15),

which received 1,000 iPads as part of Ms. Flores Board

Member allocation

Granada Hills Charter HS, allocated 455 tablets (page13), has over 2,000 devices on campus, including eight

computer labs and 23 carts

Need for added tablets to meet needs not satisfiedby existing devices on campus can only be

determined by school-by-school assessment (now

underway)

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Allocations to Primary Center and other

schools with no Field Test taker grades

Primary Centers with no Grade 3 (examples): Lake Street Primary Center, K-1 (page 16)

Mariposa-NABI Primary Center, K-2 (18)

Olympic Primary Center, K-K (page 22) Richard Riordan Primary Center, K-1 (page 24)

City of Angeles Virtual Academy (page 8)

As it name implies, City of Angeles does not have atraditional campus; its students take specific distance

learning courses not available on their home campuses

where they will take the Field Test

All ti f t b L ti C d th

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Allocation of carts by Location Code, rather

than campus, which leads to inequities

Allocations are in units of a cart, with 35 tablets andkeyboards, by school (location code), not

campus even though, in most cases, two (or

more) schools on an ES campus share the library,

food service area, playgrounds, multi-purpose

room, parkingand the Principal

We believe that sharing of Field Test devices

between schools on a campus basis is very feasible

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Allocation of carts by Location Code, Rather

Than Campus, Which Leads to Inequities

Braddock Drive ES and Braddock Gifted/HighlyGifted/High Ability Magnet (page 5):

Total of 219 total tested population

Need 29 tablets (for 2015 real test)

Allocated two carts/70 tablets because two location

codes

156thStreet ES (page 1):

242 tested population

Need for 32 tablets (2015 test)

Allocated one cart/35 tablets

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NoAllocation to Some Schools With Students

in the Test-Taking grades that Had Been

Erroneously Shown With No Students

Ararat Charter School (page 3)

Citizens of the Word Charter 3 (Mar Vista) (page 8)

These are both Charter Schools that, according to

BOC research, arein operation

The problem may be due to data from the Charter

not being properly submitted or processed on a

timely basis, which resulted in the database used

for the allocation of carts being incorrectthis

would not be the first time such a problem occurred