Leg analyst predicts Prop 98 suspension The Educated Guess

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Leg analyst predicts Prop 98 suspension

Posted in State Budget

Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor believes it may be unavoidable – and may be preferable – to suspend Proposition 98, the primary method of funding K-12 schools and community colleges, in a year when the state is struggling to close a massive $20 billion deficit.
Doing so would at least be a candid acknowledgment that the state can’t afford what it is legally obligated to pay for education. It would also free up the Legislature to establish priorities – do the least harm – if it manages to raise additional revenue.
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By John Fensterwald on June 8th, 2010

Skeptics named to common-core commission

Tags: Academic Content Standards Commission, Bill Evers, Greg Greeting, Ze'ev Wurman
Posted in Common Core standards

Two men who helped craft the state’s math standards in 1997 and have been critical of the effort to create national common-core standards in math and English language arts are among the 11 individuals named by Gov. Schwarzenegger to a commission to evaluate them.