South Bay : Inglewood Schools Get Poor Grade in Audit
The Inglewood educators wanted an honest report card and they got it: staff morale from kindergarten through high school is low, the curriculum has various inadequacies and the district is plagued by poor classroom instruction.
On top of that, students in half of the district’s 12 elementary schools are falling short of national and state standards when it comes to reading and language.
The American Assn. of School Administrators’ conclusions, released yesterday, were based on a survey of the 1993-94 academic school year. Educators in the 20-campus Inglewood Unified School District had voted in favor of having an external audit to give them an objective picture of how they were doing.
The district took the news on the chin.
“We knew this audit would show our weaknesses,” Supt. D. McKinley Nash said, “but we wanted to reinvent the school district. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us but I believe we can achieve academic excellence.”
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