Brown saves ed bills for last - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Kathryn Baron contributed to this article Signatures and vetoes went flying out of the State Capitol over the weekend as Gov. Brown raced to meet the October 9 deadline to take action on all the bills passed during the 2011-12 legislative session. He signed three bills that will lead to significant changes in what students are [...]
A sign of the times - by Kathryn Baron
For Assemblymember Marty Block (D-San Diego), winning the governor’s approval for his community college common assessment bill was slightly better than your mom saying “it’s the thought that counts.” In a brief signing message attached to his approval of AB 743, Gov. Brown said while he supports the plan, there’s no money in the state [...]
No changes to Open Enrollment - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
For all its quirks and anomalies, the two-year-old Open Enrollment Act, which gives parents in low-performing schools the chance to transfer their children to a better school in another district, will remain unchanged. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have let a number of schools off the hook. In his veto message [...]