Litigation alert: major funding suit to be filed today The Educated Guess

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Litigation alert: major funding suit to be filed today

Posted in Adequacy suit, Student spending

The long-anticipated suit challenging California’s meager education funding will be formally announced and filed today.
The state PTA is joining the California School Boards Association and the Association of California School Administrators in what could become the biggest school funding case since Serrano v Priest in the ‘70s overturned the state’s system of funding schools. The suit comes one week after Gov. Schwarzenegger released a revised state budget that proposes spending 11 percent on K-12 schools than four years ago.
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By John Fensterwald on May 20th, 2010

Massachusetts leads, California lags

Posted in Common Core standards

California likes to be linked with Massachusetts as states with the nation’s most rigorous academic standards. Call it bragging by association.
A big difference, though, is that the Bay State is also high-achieving – near the top of the National Assessment of Educational Progress state rankings, among other measures – while California bumps along year after year near the bottom.
The two states’ approaches to evaluating common-core standards, being developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, are revealing as well – and tell a lot about how seriously the two states go about deciding education policy.
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