School district superintendents start nonprofit for education reform
By Brian Watt/KPCC
The superintendents of seven California public school districts announced today they’re starting a new nonprofit to try to improve education. The superintendents represent more than a million students in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Sacramento, San Francisco, Fresno, Clovis, and Sanger. Their districts are large and small, urban, suburban, and rural. They worked together on California’s bid for federal Race to the Top dollars. The bid fell short, but some good ideas came out of the process: sharing information on what works, common standards in English and math, and common ways to measure teacher performance. (more…)
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