David Allan Tomac

A 3rd grade teacher at Parmelee Avenue Elementary in 2008

These graphs show a teacher's "value-added" rating based on his or her students' progress on the California Standards Tests in math and English. The Times’ analysis used all valid student scores available for this teacher from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years. The value-added scores reflect a teacher's effectiveness at raising standardized test scores and, as such, capture only one aspect of a teacher's work.

Overall value-added effectiveness

Math effectiveness

English effectiveness

This chart shows where teachers in this effectiveness category fall on a distribution of all teachers’ scores.

Compared with other Los Angeles Unified teachers on the value-added measure of test score improvement, Tomac ranked:

Average overall.
Average in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, did not gain or lose significantly on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
Less effective than average in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 3 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Tomac's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Parmelee Avenue Elementary, 2008 - 2003

David Tomac's Response:

The first year you colected data for in 2002 was the year we started
Open Court 2002, the fifth different reading program we had in the past five years at my school. It was at the time when the STAR test was coming in.
Don't put too much faith in the data from that time.
Why are you putting all this pressure on teachers with your publishing test scores and threating us with takeover by Charter schools?
You are talking out of both sides of your mouth by telling us how lacking we are in our teaching skills and at the same time telling us how important we are to public education.
I know we are easy targets. If you put half the energy you use in going after teachers and appy it to parents, administrators, and students,
we would be much further along in improving education in LAUSD.

The Times gave LAUSD elementary school teachers rated in this database the opportunity to preview their value-added evaluations and publicly respond. Some issues raised by teachers may be addressed in the FAQ. Teachers who have not commented may do so by contacting The Times.