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Report: Education reforms yield higher test scores | California Watch

Report: Education reforms yield higher test scores | California Watch

Report: Education reforms yield higher test scores

A major squabble between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his adversaries on K-12 funding early in his administration has had a positive outcome: higher test scores in many of the state's lowest performing schools.

That is the finding of a report to be released today by the California Teachers Association on a $3 billion program established as a result of a settlement to a lawsuit filed against Schwarzenegger by the CTA and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell five years ago.

At the time, the CTA and O'Connell alleged that Schwarzenegger had failed to fully fund the schools under