Such a big cost, so little benefit: Why, Governor, persist with Common Core? - by Doug Lasken
Somehow in preparing to run against Republican Meg Whitman, California Gov. Jerry Brown managed to shed his old persona of Shaman/Management Theorist, an easy target of ridicule and one that Whitman would surely have relished had she been able to resurrect it. This showed impressive image control, but I’m looking for the [...]
Racial disparity in CA school discipline - by Kathryn Baron
In nine out of California’s ten largest school districts African American and Hispanic students are suspended and expelled at rates far exceeding their numbers, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. In San Francisco, where African American students compose 11.9 percent of the total enrollment, they accounted for [...]