Brown’s veto of education bill consistent with earlier views

10-12-2011

By Louis Freedberg/ EdSource Extra

A simple teaching exercise on a green leaf has had an enduring impact on Gov. Jerry Brown’s views on education. As he related to the State Board of Education shortly after taking office in January, when he was a student at St. Ignatius High in San Francisco, one of his teachers gave him an assignment to write an essay on his impressions of a green leaf. “I have been thinking about my impressions of a green leaf since 1955, but that won’t show up on a standardized test,” Brown related to the board. Fast forward to Brown’s rejection this week of Senate Bill 547, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s bill that would have revised the current system of rating California schools to include other “multiple indicators” of school performance in addition to test scores. (more...)

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