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Lawmakers urged to restore CALPADS budget
- 11-01-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Speaking no doubt for many of his peers, the data administrator overseeing compliance with CALPADS for Long Beach Unified is urging the Legislature to quickly restore money that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed for the besieged statewide student data system. The failure to do so will lead to the shutdown later this month of the state agency that supports and trains local districts in uploading critical data that the federal government demands, John Novak, the Long Beach administrator, wrote in a letter he circulated last week among legislators. Long Beach is the state’s third largest school district and recognized as a leader in using data. A month ago, Schwarzenegger deleted from the state budget nearly $7 million in operating money, effective Dec. 6, for the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, which IBM is building under a contract with the state Department of Education. (more…)
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