Both sides in California’s perpetual war over the direction of its immense public school system found something to like in the new federal education bill that President Barack Obama signed Thursday.
And that means, of course, that both found something to dislike.
The Every Student Succeeds Act replaces the No Child Left Behind law that former President George W. Bush persuaded Congress to enact and state and local education officials intensely disliked as being too simplistic and inflexible in rating schools only on academic test results.
The now-discarded law was similar in thrust to the California school rating system that former Gov. Gray Davis championed, assigning each school an Academic Performance Index (API) score based on its test scores.
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