Just as K-12 online learning hits tipping point, evaluation program threatened
Driven in part by the coming implementation of common core curriculum standards, California schools have never been more engaged in online learning programs – especially at the high school level – according to draft results of a new statewide survey.
But in a move rife with paradox, Gov. Jerry Brown last week reaffirmed his plan to eliminate funding for a key statewide program dedicated to the intersection of both common core and online learning.
His revised May budget would give schools $1 billion to help implement the common core curriculum – some of which would have to be spent evaluating how well commercial online courses fit the new standards in math and English language arts, the very function of the California Learning Resource Network whose funding is threatened.
The network, established under the auspices of the state department of education in 1999, would lose its dedicated funding and perhaps its mission, too, under Brown’s school finance restructuring plan.
Charged with providing schools, teachers and parents objective analysis of the academic rigor of commercial online
Brown ignores LAO warning, stands pat with distributing $1b in Prop. 39 funds
Three months ago the typically reserved nonpartisan Legislative Analyst used especially robust language in calling into question a plan from Gov. Jerry Brown to use new corporate tax revenue to improve energy efficiency at K-12 schools and community colleges.