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Is CALPADS unfixable? No answer yet
- 05-27-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
State education officials expressed deep disappointment last week on learning that California was out of the running for money to expand the statewide student data system. They haven’t heard yet why the state placed 26th out of 50th in a grant competition that funded only the top 20 states. But they shouldn’t be surprised if the feds’ answer is, “Are you kidding? Why would you expect taxpayers to enlarge a data system when you have yet to get it to work right?” Nearly one year into its operation, CALPADS, the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, is still struggling. Five months after a consultant warned of an imminent system collapse and urged a top-to-bottom review, the student data system is still being fixed. (more...)
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