California May be released for the planned $ 700 million in federal Department of incentive fund education in accordance with guidelines published today by the Ministry of Education U. S. considered.
Earlier this year, slammed Obama administration, a number of reforms including the removal of rate caps on charter schools and students with the test results to educators in the grant of 4.35 million as a competitive race to the top is known. The Administration has accepted public comment for several months to finalize the rules.
More than 1,100 groups and individuals have responded online. Federal authorities in the Times today summarize the final guidelines, which are similar to the original proposal.
Member States will bring to 500 scale that its plans, the various reforms, including implementation of systems management data, actions will be judged, he shot a scene and schools with low teacher salaries and administrators more effective.
States now have 60 days to deadline for federal funding to implement more pressure on members of the California Assembly, who is currently a special parliamentary session on education happens. After the first phase of federal funds by mid-January.
Member States in May, in the second round of financing later, but federal authorities have warned that only a few are chosen.
Officials of the Ministry of Education were also evaluated on the basis of school age, how each state would receive if it has received a grant. Four large states, including California, could be $ 350 million to 700 million dollars.
Government officials had hoped that California will be $ 1 billion account.
Californian Senate passed a comprehensive bill of Education earlier this month that embraces many proposals of the Obama administration, including the elimination of the possibility of limiting the number of charter schools and the results of quality testing evaluation. Unlike the teachers unions state “the law, and state Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles), chairman of the Senate Committee on Education, said that the opposition can make a difference when l ‘Assembly has taken action.
General Assembly held a series of hearings on the race for the top and has another scheduled in mid-December. Although the Education Act legislature shortly after the final hearing, state officials will have little time to create a race to the top of the request.
Members of the Assembly may decide to expedite its procedures.
“We look at the new guidelines take and see if we wrote that any change in the schedule,” Shannon Murphy, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Assembly Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), at E – mail.
This year, legislators proposed a law that was criticized by federal officials, including Obama, is illegal, the state of assessing students with test results for teachers. Obama awarded in California and Indiana last week for this step.
But it cannot move enough to provide financing for California and the budgets of other states have committed to actively pursue the race for top dollar.
“There is a difference if you get on the Olympic team and a gold medal,” said Justin Hamilton, the representative of the Ministry of Education. “We always talk about the gold medal.”
Teachers’ unions say the changes to legislators and to advance more rapidly, partly because the unions believe that federal funding is inadequate.
“Seven hundred million more than the shock of entering the eye with a sharp stick, but it is not closed to fill the holes” of previous budget cuts, “said Fred Glass, Communications Director, California Federation of Teachers.
Glass also said that linking the test results of students, teachers, particularly for payment, a proven theory. “We want to reform the education system based on research,” he said.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has not seen the latest federal guidelines, but urged the Assembly to work quickly.
“In truth, a bipartisan reform and hundreds of millions of dollars for schools in California, now in the hands of the National Assembly, Camille Anderson, a spokesman for the governor, wrote by e-mail.