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He disagrees over use of data for accountability

Posted on 10/09/11 • Categorized as A to G Curriculum, Assessments, Common Core standards, Data, Jerry Brown, Parent Trigger

By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

Calling it “yet another siren song of school reform,” Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have expanded the state’s accountability system to include measures other than standardized tests.

SB 547, the top education priority of Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, was one of 15 education-related bills that Brown killed on Saturday, the day before the deadline for acting on legislation before him. Among the others: SB 185, a direct challenge of Proposition 209’s