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Pupil data hostage to Sacramento feud
- 07-19-2010
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By Gerry Shih/Bay Citizen
When advocacy groups took the state of California to court this week to seek the restoration of billions of dollars in public education funding, the lawsuit swept back into the spotlight a glitch-ridden, $200 million digital initiative that has languished in Sacramento for nearly a decade. In 2002, the California Senate authorized the creation of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, or CALPADS, a computer database that would track enrollment and standardized testing information for every student in the state from kindergarten through college. By collecting student data over time, the project's proponents said, educators could identify which teachers, schools, programs or methods were effective and determine more accurate dropout rates. (more...)
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