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- 10-11-2011
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By Michael Gardner/San Diego Union-Tribune
Gov. Jerry Brown’s candid veto of legislation to transform California’s maligned school assessment practices is a radical departure from the mostly perfunctory messages of governors gone by, this one calling on Albert Einstein, lecturing the education community and issuing his own challenging alternative. The bill would have added different gauges to the traditional yardstick known as the Academic Performance Index, or API, that now tracks school success based on test scores exclusively. “Adding more speedometers to a broken car won’t turn it into a high-performance machine,” Brown wrote in his veto message. (more...)
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