One more stab at P-20 data structure - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Call him Senator Sisyphus. With two years before he’s termed out, Sen. Joe Simitian keeps pushing against inertia and bureaucratic resistance to create an effective education database that can track students from preschool to the workplace. Other states without Silicon Valley savvy have already done so. California committed to establish such a system when it agreed [...]
Money for green-tech academies - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Gov. Jerry Brown this week signed legislation that at least will protect high school green-tech career academies from a state budget implosion and will even expand the number over the next few years. Doing so took some creative thinking from the bill’s sponsor, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. SBX 1-1 will direct $40 million over [...]
