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California Teachers, Parents, and Principals Support Charter Schools
Submitted on 3.22.2000
San Francisco, CA – California charter schools are doing a better job of educating children than the schools their students previously attended, according to survey results in A Charter School Survey: Parents, Teachers, and Principals Speak Out, published by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
California Department of Education Mismanagement Out-of-Control
Submitted on 3.2.2000
San Francisco, CA – Two audits and a Department of Justice investigation into possible criminal conduct reveal that the California Department of Education (CDE) is failing to ensure that billions in education funds are spent on student achievement rather than being wasted on fraud, abuse, and political payoffs. The details appear in "On No Account: The Accountability Crisis in California Education," a new briefing by the Center for School Reform of the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI).
Of No Account: The Accountability: Crisis in California Education
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley, Thomas Dawson on 3.1.2000
Education is so important to the future of California that Proposition 98 requires that it receive 40 percent of the state’s budget, more than any other item. Currently, the state spends more than $40 billion per year for K–12 education alone. Legislators look askance at a process in which those funds, rather than being spent in a way that increases student achievement, are wasted on fraud, abuse, and political payoffs. That situation currently exists with the California Department of Education (CDE) and is of sufficient gravity that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the CDE for possible criminal and civil violations.
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