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Despite veto, no CALPADS layoffs, shutdown
- 01-20-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
After a frustrated Gov. Schwarzenegger deleted $6.8 million for the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System and related operations from the state budget in October, Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell issued no fewer than five press releases condemning the move and warning of dire consequences. Others were equally critical. There would be layoffs among those who provide critical CALPADS support, and operations would shut down after Dec. 6, when the veto took effect, O’Connell warned. “Unless funding is restored quickly for CALPADS, millions of dollars invested in California’s longitudinal education data system will have been wasted, and our state will be at ground zero in collecting student-level data, placing us last among the states in measuring student progress over time,” O’Connell warned in one November press release. “The Governor’s veto of funding for CALPADS is a travesty,” he said in another. As it turned out, the sky didn’t fall on CALPADS. No one from the California School Information Services (CSIS), which provided the help desk for districts on CALPADS, was laid off. The reason: The veto message apparently contained an error; the budget line it cited was not for CSIS, but an area of community college spending. Rather than fix the mistake, the governor’s office let it pass. (more…)
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