The High School Pupil Success Act (HSPSA) was intended to facilitate increased high school student achievement by supporting the development of district-community partnerships, public engagement, school transformation, and systemic district reform. The Act called for a reform and redesign plan that applies to all high schools within a district as well as the central administration functions needed to support reform at the site level. The HSPSA was designed as a two-phase approach.
In Phase I, school districts formed a "district-community partnership" with a community-based organization. Together with the involvement of the whole school community, including parents, teachers, pupils, and other community stakeholders, the district-community partnership was charged with creating a five-year reform and redesign plan for the development of effective high schools for all pupils in the district. These district-community partnerships may serve as models for high school reform and reinvention efforts throughout California. The result of Phase I is a Five-Year Reform and Redesign Plan intended to fully describe how districts will achieve high school transformation and systemic district-wide reform. The legislation requires the plans to be completed by June 30, 2004.
In Phase II, school districts implement their plans. Due to California's budget crisis, district-community partnership plans focused on how to best utilize existing resources so they could be implemented independent of any additional HSPSA funds, and/or could be used to further local fundraising efforts.
The California Department of Education is implementing this program in partnership with the California Secretary for Education and the Forum for Youth Investment, which provides technical assistance on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The
Forum for Youth Investment (Outside Source)
Maintains information and a contact list for the eleven High School
Pupil Success Act districts listed below.
- Calipatria Unified School District
- Emery Unified School District
- Fresno Unified School District
- Grossmont Union High School District
- Inglewood Unified School District
- Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District
- Local District B, Los Angeles Unified School District
- Local District H, Los Angeles Unified School District
- Petaluma Joint Union High School District
- Washington Unified School District
- West Contra Costa Unified School District
The High School Pupil Success Act was co-administered by:
California Department of Education
Secondary, Postsecondary,
and Adult Leadership Division
1430 N Street, Suite 4503
Sacramento, CA 95814
State of California Governor's Office
Office of the Secretary for Education
(Outside Source)
1121 L Street, Suite 600
Sacramento, CA 95814
Technical Assistance on behalf of the Gates Foundation is provided by:
The
Forum for Youth Investment (Outside Source)
The Cady-Lee House
7064 Eastern Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20012
For further information contact:
John Merris-Coots, Education Programs Consultant
916-319-0461
fax: 916-319-0163
jmerris@cde.ca.gov
