More charges and blame over CALPADS
Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell escalated his attack Monday on Gov. Schwarzenegger’s veto of money budgeted for completing the statewide student data system known as CALPADS. O’Connell and Keric Ashley, the Department of Education executive overseeing the contract to build the system, said that deleting nearly $7 million for the system would bring work to a halt next month, derailing progress while the Legislature debates whether or how to reinstate the money and jeopardizing completion of dropout data and other reports that the state is required to provide the federal government. (more…)