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		<title>Come join us at EdSource - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/29/come-join-us-at-edsource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear TOP-Ed subscriber,
            In the event you’ve been on vacation or wondering what happened to your daily posts from Thoughts on Public Education, let me again invite you to follow and subscribe to Kathy Baron and me at EdSource, where we joined forces with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compromise on school fees bill - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/29/compromise-on-school-fees-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/29/compromise-on-school-fees-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of a complaint process for parents and students who believe they’re being charged illegal fees have amended a bill to satisfy all of the main opponents, save the silent one who hasn’t been heard from yet. That’s Gov. Jerry Brown, who vetoed similar legislation last year.
On Wednesday, the Senate Education Committee approved AB 1575 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dismissal bill falters in Assembly - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/28/dismissal-bill-falters-in-assembly/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/28/dismissal-bill-falters-in-assembly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teacher Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Padilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Berndt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=16040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With teachers and organized labor rallying against what they called an unnecessary attack on their rights, a bill that would make it easier to fire teachers and administrators accused of serious sexual and violent offenses against children failed to pass the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday. Sen. Alex Padilla’s controversial SB 1530 will be dead [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>160-day minimum year coming - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/26/not-one-but-two-160-day-minimum-years/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/26/not-one-but-two-160-day-minimum-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=16002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Call it a last-minute clarification or a June surprise, another piece of bad news: A trailer bill that the Legislature will vote on Wednesday permits districts to slash the school year by an additional three weeks for the next two years, if voters reject Gov. Brown’s tax increase in November. That’s twice what  Gov. Jerry [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>First, keep the lights on - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/25/first-keep-the-lights-on/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/25/first-keep-the-lights-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equity issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given more control over how they could spend state money, school districts not surprisingly chose survival over experimentation. And if legislators want otherwise – to encourage districts to innovate or target money on low-achieving students – then they should be more explicit about their intentions.
That was the main finding and chief recommendation of a study [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another report urges changing API - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/21/another-report-urges-changing-api/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/21/another-report-urges-changing-api/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A to G Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiple pathways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twenty-first Century Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workforce preparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[API]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darrell Steinberg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report this week from a Washington think tank bolsters Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s call for significantly revising the state’s primary accountability measure, the Academic Performance Index. Now, if Gov. Jerry Brown would only read it…
“Ready by Design: A College and Career Ready Agenda for California,” published by Education Sector, recommends that the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>California&#8217;s first-class Dreamers - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/19/californias-first-class-dreamers/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/19/californias-first-class-dreamers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English learners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UC and CSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB130]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB131]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Student Aid Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downtown College Prep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dream Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Beatriz, the daughter of  house cleaners, and Chava, the son of tamale and ice cream makers from San Jose, will enroll this fall in the University of California at Merced – an event they viewed as unattainable until two months ago. They did aspire to a four-year degree. But as undocumented immigrants from Mexico whose [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>API has served its purpose - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/15/api-has-served-its-purpose-if-it-ever-did/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/15/api-has-served-its-purpose-if-it-ever-did/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[10.1Assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Achievement Gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A court decision this week involving Los Angeles Unified has raised again the contentious issue of evaluating teachers using standardized test scores. But a recent report for the think tank Education Sector recommends adopting the same method developed by Los Angeles Unified to replace the Academic Performance Index as a statewide way of measuring schools&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Student scores in evaluations - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/12/student-scores-must-be-factored-in-evaluations/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/12/student-scores-must-be-factored-in-evaluations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evaluations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Villaraigosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Lucia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EdVoice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Chalfant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Deasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stull Act]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://toped.svefoundation.org/?p=15726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a decision with statewide implications, a Superior Court judge ruled that Los Angeles Unified must include measures of student progress, including scores on state standardized tests, when evaluating teachers and principals.
But Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant will leave it to the district, in negotiations with its teachers union and administrators union, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Judge OKs Prop 98 shell game - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</title>
		<link>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/08/judge-oks-prop-98-shell-game/</link>
		<comments>http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/06/08/judge-oks-prop-98-shell-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fensterwald - Educated Guess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Revenue and taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Superior Court judge last week lopped a limb off Proposition 98. Fans of Monty Python might have been amused; school districts will not be.
The three-paragraph ruling by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn simply reaffirmed a tentative ruling he issued in March. Back then he ruled that nothing prevents the governor and Legislature [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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