State’s hardly ‘persistently lowest list’ - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Most of the 96 schools that the state has designated among the 5 percent “persistently lowest performing” shouldn’t be on the list. Yet they could qualify for the $69 million that the Department of Education has allotted California for schools to turn themselves around. That’s the conclusion of Doug McRae, a retired test publisher, occasional TOP-Ed [...]
Don’t hold your breath for GOP cuts - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
It’s fascinating – actually exasperating – to watch the powerful feign impotence. By nature of the need for a two-thirds majority, Republicans in the Legislature control whether voters will have the right to extend $11 billion in temporary taxes for the next five years. Democrats alone will fall five votes short – three in the Senate [...]
