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California's Teacher-Quality Masquerade
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 4.28.2004
SACRAMENTO, CA - Ample research confirms that teacher quality has a large effect on student performance. Good teachers raise student achievement levels, while poor ones keep them down. California's recent efforts to ensure high-quality teachers in the classroom, however, have been misguided and deceptive.
Higher Taxes by Ballot?
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 4.22.2004
SACRAMENTO, CA - The California Teachers Association had been up to their usual business of resisting reform, and plotting to raise taxes through yet another ballot measure, the "Improving Classroom Education Act.'' Then on April 8 the CTA withdrew its initiative, to the benefit of both students and taxpayers.
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