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Another dire warning over CALPADS veto
- 11-09-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
The outside consultant that earlier this year called for immediate, major repairs to CALPADS is now warning of a new threat to the student longitudinal data system: Gov. Schwarzenegger’s line-item veto of nearly $7 million in operating money for the system. In a seven-page report, Folsom-based Sabot Technologies concluded, “The vetoed funding places all CALPADS expenditures to date at risk by fundamentally risking the success of the system.” Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, who commissioned the study and found it much to his liking, released it Monday as part of his lobbying to persuade the incoming Legislature and Gov.-elect Jerry Brown to quickly restore the money for CALPADS, and allow the Department of Education to continue managing the project. (more…)
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