I'm very proud of my son's school, El Sol Academy. The demographics are primarily low income Hispanics. Their API is now 843 (granted, nowhere near an Irvine school), students are bilingual and bi-literate, their math scores are excellent and they also made their AYP, which is really the tough one, this means that their low income, English Language Learners made huge leaps, most schools just can't make progress (or enough progress to meet the much tougher AYP) with this group. After 3 weeks of Kindergarten and 45 minutes a day of homework Tues.-Sun., I'm kind of understanding why they are having such success. It's nice to see a different model that is working. If you guys are really interested, check out your school's AYP (annual yearly progress), this one is ridiculous and will eventually catch just about every school in the state in this crazy web unless something is changed in regards to No Child Left Behind, it is designed to make all schools labeled "failures" eventually. Progress in each subgroup is not enough under these rules, 100% proficiency for all is the only thing that is acceptable.