I Wish I Had A Governor Like This.
Or a *president* for that matter.
>>>>Compare and contrast the governor in California with the governor in New York:
Governor Brown took aim at excessive testing in the schools – an ongoing theme of his governorship – and warned lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington not to burden teachers with more demands than they are already experiencing in forceful remarks at the California Democratic Convention in Los Angeles over the weekend.
Students, Brown said, already have “tests coming out their ears.”
“California is recognizing that the genius of each child is not how they bubble in an A, B, C and D,” he said, to the cheers of the crowd, in contrast to the heckling he received from anti-fracking activists toward the end of his 12-minute speech. As he did in his State of the State speech in January, he paraphrased William Butler Yeats by declaring that “education is not filling a pail, it is lighting a fire in the soul and spirit of every child.”
His remarks came a day after what amounted to a major victory for California when U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that he would not fine the state for refusing to administer the California Standardized Tests for one last time this spring as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Law. Instead, California had opted to administer field tests this spring of the Smarter Balanced assessments in English language arts and math based on new Common Core standards adopted by 45 states, including California. Just last September, Duncan had threatened to withhold millions – and possibly billions – of dollars in federal Title I funds for poor children if California went ahead with its plan.
“No one wants to ov>>>>>> the rest:http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com
Our own gasbag gov hates teachers, loves standardized tests ( esp the profitable ones) takes hundreds of thousands of $$$ from charter school interests ( which serve 3 % of the public school population in NYC) then demagogues the issue and demonizes our new mayor ( 73%) for asking charters that can afford it ( like the ones where the ceo pays herself 375k per year) to pay rent for the space they take up in public school bldgs.
This passes for "normal" in the political culture in NYS. I keep asking for the nat'l party to step in here. Yes, it's THAT bad. But there's no precedent for such a move. Too bad.
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