Brown’s mystifying CALTIDES veto
At issue: linking teacher IDs to student data
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Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of $2.1 million for the development a statewide database onteachers – CALTIDES – apparently ticked off U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, pleased the California Teachers Assn., and puzzled just about everyone else in education, who are left wondering, “Just what does Jerry want?”
Did he worry about the possibility of another state computer fiasco, as CALPADS, the statewide student database, was in its development? Or does he think that the emphasis on data in general is a waste of time? Is he OK with collecting data on teachers, student test
