12/30/2024

Dan Walters: California’s Financing Formula Reignites Big School Struggle

The struggle over how – and if – California schools will be held accountable for results of a revised school finance formula will be rejoined this week in the state Board of Education.

The board and its president, Michael Kirst, want to kill the state’s test-based Academic Performance Index and replace it with a “multiple measures” system that is much less confrontational.

The state’s education establishment, contending that the old system is too simplistic and punitive, likes the switch.

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