Re: Testing California Second Graders

[Jo Ann Behm <jobehm@behmer.us>]

I think he may do this because he gets campaign contributions from Pearson,
McGraw-Hill, and Princeton Review [see follow the money] and he thinks his
political future in CA still has hope.

Jo
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Jo Rupert Behm, M.S., RN
State and Federal Health and Education Public Policy Consultant
LDA National Advocacy Committee
Council Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) Government Affairs
LDA National Healthy Children's Project Advisory Committee
Collaborative on Health and the Environment-LDDI Workgroup
Phone:  415-897-2426
FAX:    415-897-8115
email:  jobehm@behmer.us


"Convincing Grown-ups to Enact Responsible Policy and Legislation When
Deciding the Future of Children"  JRB January, '04



> From: George Sheridan <learn@jps.net>
> Reply-To: <ca-resisters@interversity.org>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:39 -0800
> To: <ca-resisters@serv1.ncte.org>, <ca-resisters@interversity.org>
> Cc: <ARN-l@interversity.org>
> Subject: [ca-resisters] Testing California Second Graders
> 
> Jack O'Connell, California's State Superintendent of Public
> Instruction, has signaled that he plans to sponsor legislation to
> extend STAR testing of second graders beyond the current sunset of
> July 1, 2007. CTA will vigorously oppose this proposal and is already
> organizing our allies to defeat it.
> 
> We sponsored the original bill to end second-grade testing. I
> personally provided the legislature with information from experts on
> testing and on child development, showing that standardized testing
> of young children is even less reliable than similar testing with
> older children, in some cases barely exceeding chance. I also told
> them about the impact of the rigid testing protocols on some of my
> fragile children.
> 
> Gene Mullin, the new chair of the Assembly Education Committee, was
> one of the authors of the original legislation. He will be able to
> use letters opposing this form of state-sponsored child abuse. I will
> post more information when it becomes available.
> 
> 
> George Sheridan 
> 
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