Louisiana Drops Common Core and its Assessment Group
From Deutsch29 blog:Jindal just finished a press conference. His words, summarized: PARCC selection did not comply with La state law requiring a bidding process– this voids PARCC agreement. Jindal has asked for a financial audit of PARCC spending and an open, competitive bidding process for assessment. He said that suspending PARCC is what he was able to do immediately via executive order. He also
Corrections and Updates
Corrections I misspoke when I said that Jackie Bezos was Jeff Bezos' wife. She is his mother. She is the president of his family foundation. I reported that two members of the Advanced Learning Committee were at the C&I meeting last week but I missed the name of one person. That was Jeanne Thompson, the chair, who spoke at the meeting.UpdatesThe district is following other districts' in dr
6-17-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadGreat article at Publicola on the McCleary ruling (with slide from the Office of Financial Management). Meanwhile, over at the Times, the editorial board is saying that the Supreme Court is "menacing" the Legislature. They say that "so far" the Legislature has done everything the Court has asked. Except fully fund education