West Putnam Elementary School Principal Katherine Johnson knew she had to make some changes at her Porterville school. In 1999, the school was on California's Underperforming Schools Program list. Johnson and her team had to come up with a new school plan to raise student academic achievement. Porterville Unified School District curriculum director Gary Ingraham learned about Just for the Kids-California (www.jftk-ca.org). JFTK-CA was developed and built by the California business community under the leadership of California Business for Education Excellence, the National Center for Educational Account ability and California State University Office of the Chancellor. This free school improvement system provides user-friendly data on the performance of all 8,700 public schools in California and most importantly, proven best practices from high performing/high poverty schools across the state and country.