History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Race to Top bill would give parents more power
- 12-09-2009
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
A majority of parents at a low-performing school could force a district trustees to turn it over to a charter school operator or take other dramatic actions, under an amendment that Sen. Gloria Romero has added to her Race to the Top legislation. The Assembly Education Committee will take up a competing bill, ABX5-8, sponsored by Chairwoman Julia Brownley, and possibly Romero’s SBX5-1, tomorrow. Assembly leaders haven’t indicated whether they’ll seriously consider Romero’s bill. They should. Three of the amendments in particular not only would strengthen the state’s application for the $4.3 billion program; they’d be sound reforms in their own right. The Obama administration is demanding that states turn around the worst 5 percent of persistently low-achieving schools that have failed for years to make state and federal improvement goals – probably a couple dozen schools at most in California. (more...)
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