COMMON CORE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT Phases 2 and 1L

School Construction Bond Citizens Oversight Committee Recommendations to the LAUSD Board of Education January 14, 2012

Why Am I Here Today?

The BOCs recommendation to the Board in regard to CCTP Phases 2 and 1L are complex and evolved over time Unfortunately, the BOC Resolution in the Board Agenda Package, from our November meeting, has been superseded by the one from our December meeting which was circulated yesterday At the November meeting, there were many unresolved issues By the December meeting, these had been all resolved with one important exception

Tablets for Spring 2014 Field Test

The original Board Report recommended 67,480 iPads so that all grade 3-11 students could take two test of approximately four hour each In November, CDE changed the testing requirement to each grade 3-8 and 11, and ~5% of grade 9-10 students, taking one approximately four-hour test The tablet requirements were recalculated to 38,535 which is the maximum that BOC now recommends be authorized for procurement Staff should return to BOC and Board for additional authorization for Spring 2015 testing after the results of the 2014 test, and the Evaluation, are in

Why Not Buy 67,480 Devices Now?

There is no need to do so for the Field Test By the time the District must prepare for the real, Spring 2015 Test, the District will have far better information as to needs:
Lessons learned from Field Test Will have inventory of other devices at schools

We know now that some of the 67,480 will not be needed for 2015 testing for example, from the seven large Phase 1L high school campuses that will all have one-to-one laptops by then Risk of loss for devices not needed for 2014 Test that may not be needed for 2015 Test

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 be used for academic purposes, they will not have Pearson content and if the primary purpose of a larger buy is academic, that should be so stated

CCTP Evaluation
BOC recommends that the responsibility for managing the CCTP Evaluation be assigned to the Office of the Inspector General OIG, reporting to the Board, is independent of the Superintendent, which will protect the Evaluation report from accusations that the results were influenced OIG is the sole District entity that has, as a key portion of its professional training and experience, the conduct of performance audits economy, efficiency, and program results in accordance with the GAOs Government Audit Standards

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 any existing 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

Do We Know That 38,535 Will Be Enough? (continued)

We believe that LAN/WiFi access with sufficient capacity and reliability, and the specific schoolbased test taking plans, which are now underway, are far more significant concerns and that having more tablets will be, at best, of only minor assistance in resolving such issues BOC staff analysis shows that there are likely at least 100 carts that could be eliminated from the 1,101 carts in the lower 38,535 Field Test calculation, but we recommend 38,535 as a not-toexceed

Attachment C Issues
Phase 1 and 2 Schools already with one-to-one tablets allocated 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)

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)

No Consideration of Devices Already at Schools

Virtually all schools have computer labs and many have laptop and/or tablet carts however, their use for 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-toone take-home laptops and there are many devices that third grade Field Test takers may be able to utilized

Some schools have very significant oncampus 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 (page 13), has over 2,000 devices on campus, including eight computer labs and 23 carts

Need for added tablets to meet needs not satisfied by existing devices on campus can only be determined by school-by-school assessment (now underway)

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 a traditional campus; its students take specific distance learning courses not available on their home campuses where they will take the Field Test

Allocation of carts by Location Code, rather than campus, which leads to inequities
Allocations are in units of a cart, with 35 tablets and keyboards, 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, parking and the Principal We believe that sharing of Field Test devices between schools on a campus basis is very feasible

Allocation of carts by Location Code, Rather Than Campus, Which Leads to Inequities
Braddock Drive ES and Braddock Gifted/Highly Gifted/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

156th Street ES (page 1):

242 tested population Need for 32 tablets (2015 test) Allocated one cart/35 tablets

No Allocation 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, are in 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 incorrect this would not be the first time such a problem occurred