No action yet on NCLB waiver - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
An unconvinced State Board of Education took no action Wednesday on a request for a wavier from the No Child Left Behind law being pushed by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. Torlakson’s staff at the California Department of Education will now have another two months, until the State Board’s May meeting, to strengthen its waiver [...]
CST results back in a jiffy - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Next year, school districts will receive the students’ results on state standardized tests in two weeks, not two months – or longer. Gov. Jerry Brown had called for the quicker turnaround in his State of the State address, and on Wednesday, the State Board of Education approved amendments to the contract with the test administrator, Educational [...]
