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From: Tsai-Tsai O-Lee (tolee math.ucla.edu)
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| Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:59:11 -0700 (PDT) | |
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Your source for
current events impacting the Commission on Teacher Credentialing......
Authored
& Published by:
Bruce Kitchen, CCTC/School District Liaison San Bernardino & San Diego Counties THE PROBLEM IS....
..."California's school finance and governance systems are fundamentally flawed". As a result "California students perform far lower on tests of achievement than do students in other states" (Getting Down To Facts, Stanford University studies http://irepp.stanford.edu/projects/cafinance.htm). Are we missing the boat? In the rush to cut $16
billion from the 2008-09 state budget it is easy to target education
since it absorbs such a major part of our tax money each year. Our
primary challenge, it would seem, should be correcting our
"fundamentally flawed" funding and governance system while the need to
do so is clearly evident. Shortchanging a structure that is already
incapable of success is not a well thought out approach.
"Getting Down To Facts is the largest
independent investigation ever of how California governs and funds
public education. It was commissioned at the request of a
bipartisan group of California leaders, including the Governor's
Advisory Committee on Educational Excellence, the President Pro Tem
of the California Senate, The Speaker of the California Assembly, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction and the state Secretary of
Education"
Is anybody listening?
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