Brown: Cull the herd of state tests
State of State outlines education themes
Gov. Jerry Brown will call for fewer state standardized tests and attempt to redirect a potentially divisive debate over teacher evaluations in his State of the State address today to the Legislature. Without being specific, he will also call for locally driven school monitoring measures to complement his call for shifting authority over spending from Sacramento to school districts, according to State School Board Executive Director Sue Burr, who gave school finance officials a preview Tuesday of education themes Brown will touch on. She elaborated in an interview with me afterward.
After being sidetracked by the budget his first year in office, Brown is pursuing some of the ambitious plans on which he campaigned two years ago. This month he called for the most