Victorhugo Hernandez

A 4th grade teacher at Fries Avenue Elementary in 2009

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, Hernandez ranked:

More effective than 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.
More effective than average in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, gained about 2 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Hernandez's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Fries Avenue Elementary, 2009 - 2003

Victorhugo Hernandez's Response:

As an LA Times subscriber, I greatly appreciate investigative reporting such as the investigation that broke the high salaries being paid to the city of Bell officials. However, this article set to come out on Thursday, extremely disappoints me. If anybody should know, the Times should truly understand that it takes a village to be responsible for a child's education. This includes and is not limited to the parents and the home environment they have created for their child, school climate set forth by the school principal, socioeconomic factors, social factors surrounding the community along with of course, their teacher. To solely focus on teacher "effectiveness" based on state tests leads me to wonder if their is a hidden agenda behind this article that will further support the future political agenda of current city politicians and charter school advocates? It also leads me to question whether to change my subscription to the Daily Breeze come September 15 (expiration date of current subscription).

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.