Larry Aceves on testing & spending - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Larry Aceves, the dark-horse candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction who won the primary in June, dislikes “merit pay” for individual teachers but believes parents should be entitled to know...
View ArticleCTA outspending ACSA in race - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Update: Thanks to reader Eric Premack, who points out that charter booster and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings did report contributing $400,000 on Oct. 20 as an independent expenditure on behalf of Larry...
View ArticleWhitman plan — school grades, charters, merit pay — is right for us - by Jim...
Every four years, candidates for governor in California campaign on making our schools better. As a school principal, most recently at a Silicon Valley high school, I pay close attention to what they...
View ArticleBrown’s and Whitman’s platforms - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Few voters, other than fighting-mad members of the CTA, will likely cast their ballots for governor based on Meg Whitman’s or Jerry Brown’s views on K-12 education. Education has been mostly a campaign...
View ArticleBring in new faces and voices to Sacramento for real change - by Arun Ramanathan
Our electorate occasionally acts schizophrenic. Take the call for change. In the midst of one of our country’s longest running economic downturns, there’s a palpable anger against politicians and the...
View ArticleListen to good advice, Jerry Brown - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
The current governor has not suffered for lack of good advice on education policy. There’s the 23-study Getting Down to Facts, assembled by an institute at Stanford at his encouragement, followed by...
View ArticleKirst: reread Jerry Brown’s plan - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Michael Kirst, who co-authored Gov.-elect Jerry Brown’s education plan, had this reaction on reading the two dozen commentators’ worth of advice that ran on this page over two days last week (here and...
View ArticleJerry Brown’s ed plan reflects realism toward school reform - by Charles...
Gov.-elect Jerry Brown’s education plan is smart, pragmatic, and, in one respect, a little bit pregnant. Brown’s adviser and Stanford professor Mike Kirst suggested I reexamine the governor-elect’s...
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