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Different approaches considered amid some school officials' unease
- 12-07-2009
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By Jim Miller/Riverside Press-Enterprise
Inland school officials are apprehensive about signing on to any state effort to get school grants from the federal government, with California lawmakers still divided on the issue as next month's application deadline approaches. Wednesday, the Assembly Education Committee is scheduled to consider bills meant to improve the state's chances at receiving money from the $4.3 billion Race to the Top program, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's education reform agenda. A vote of the full Assembly is expected Thursday. One of the measures is a Senate bill that passed the upper house in early November and is backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last week, Assembly Democrats unveiled their own legislation, which the Republican governor opposes. Both bills seek to address the four main goals of Race to the Top: setting common standards and assessments for students, expanding the use of data to track student performance, supporting teachers and administrators, and intervening in the worst-performing schools. (more...)
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