The Southern California Consortium on Research in Education (SCCORE.org), based at Pomona College, has released a comprehensive survey and analysis of kids and schools in the five-county Los Angeles region. Among their findings:

• Recent school reforms have exacerbated inequity among schools;

• Crowded year-round schools tend to have Academic Performance Index scores about 100 points lower than schools on traditional calendars;

• Kids in poor schools where 80% or more are eligible for school lunch help, are three times more likely to have an uncredentialed teachers than in those schools where less than 10% are eligible; and

• Kids in high-minority schools, where 70% or more are Latino, African American or Asian American, are three times more likely to have uncredentialed teachers than schools where 90% or more of students are Anglos.

The organization’s data, which includes Southern California’s elementary and secondary students, student outcomes, teachers, districts and schools and financing, is available to the public at www.SCCORE.org. The group’s data collection and analysis were carried out largely by Pomona College students under the supervision of SCCORE.org’s director, David Menefee-Libey, associate professor of politics at Pomona.