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Brown vetoes teacher database
- 07-01-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
In a compromise with the Legislature, Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed money for one of two education databases he wanted to eliminate. Cutting about $2.5 million in federal funds for CALTIDES, a statewide data system that would have compiled information on teacher training, placement, and effectiveness, was among $24 million in cuts that the governor made while signing the state budget on Thursday. Vetoing the money for CALTIDES, the California Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data Education System, avoids “the development of a costly technology program that is not critical,” Brown wrote in his veto message. At the same time, he didn’t cut the $3 million for CALPADS, the statewide student database that he had dropped from his May budget revision and that the Legislature had then restored. (more...)
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