Disapproving parents agree: Go back and fix your budget, governor - by Crystal Brown
Parents from around the state have reviewed the governor’s proposed 2012-13 budget, and we would like to say, loud and clear, we are disappointed. We were hopeful that the Legislature and Gov. Brown would put together a budget that would ensure that schools, at the very minimum, would have funding stable for next year. We [...]
Building teachers to last - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
The biggest challenge facing legislators as they pursue rewriting the state’s teacher evaluation law this year is not how to weed out the worst teachers but how to retain the best. The key to the latter won’t be found in rubrics and value-added test scores but in deeper training for novice teaches and more career [...]