Report: Education reforms yield higher test scores

11-30-2010

By Louis Freedberg/California Watch

A major squabble between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his adversaries on K-12 funding early in his administration has had a positive outcome: higher test scores in many of the state's lowest performing schools. That is the finding of a report to be released today by the California Teachers Association on a nearly $3 billion program established as a result of a settlement to a lawsuit filed against Schwarzenegger by the CTA and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell five years ago. At the time, the CTA and O'Connell alleged that Schwarzenegger had failed to fully fund the schools under Proposition 98 in 2005 in accordance with an agreement he had reached with the education community in 2004. The lawsuit was settled out of court and resulted in SB 1133, known as the Quality Education Investment Act, authored by Assemblyman Tom Torlakson. Torlakson was recently elected to succeed O'Connell as state superintendent in January. (more…)

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