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- 04-20-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Call him Senator Sisyphus. With two years before he’s termed out, Sen. Joe Simitian keeps pushing against inertia and bureaucratic resistance to create an effective education database that can track students from preschool to the workplace. Other states without Silicon Valley savvy have already done so. California committed to establish such a system when it agreed to accept nearly $5 billion in federal stimulus money two years ago. The failure to make progress may have cost the state a chance for Race to the Top money last year. The problem is unrelated to troubles with CALPADS, the K-12 data system that’s a year behind schedule. The immediate issue is governance: getting all of the disparate parts of California education – the Department of Education, which oversees K-12; CSU; UC; the chancellor’s office of the community college system; the Commission on Teacher Credentialing; and the California Postsecondary Education Commission – to share the data that they’ve already compiled. (more...)
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