State Senate leader calls on Gov. Brown to present his plan for school accountability
By Louis Freedberg/EdSource Extra
Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is calling on Governor Jerry Brown to come forward with his own “comprehensive” plan for the state’s testing and accountability system. His comments to EdSource came in response to Brown’s harsh rejection two weeks ago of Steinberg’s legislation, SB547, to reform the state’s main system for rating the state’s schools. “My hope and expectation is that we sit down with the governor and other stakeholders over the next couple of months, and he comes forward with his own proposals about how to change an accountability system that is far too test-oriented,” he said. (more...)