History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
The illusive Common Core
- 03-28-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
In the next several months, various state players in education will try to make sense of what the state should do to prepare for the Common Core standards that California and 42 other states adopted last year. The state currently has no coherent plan for Common Core; if it doesn’t come up with one, California risks either being unprepared for Common Core standardized tests four years from now or ceding control over curricula to textbook publishers and other states and organizations charging ahead in developing them. The state faces significant obstacles. One is legal, at least for the moment: The Legislature, at former Gov. Schwarzenegger’s encouragement, placed a hold until 2015 on the adoption of new textbooks and materials, along with the curriculum frameworks on which they’re based. Assembly Education Chairwoman Julia Brownley and Sen. Alan Lowenthal are sponsoring bills – AB 250 and SB 140 respectively – to lift the moratorium and to expedite the adoption of math and English language arts textbooks for Common Core – a process under the authority of the State Board of Education for K-8th grades. (more...)
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