Here are a few links to some ed reporters' reflections on the California State Board of Education's vote last week to create emergency regulations that will force school districts to notify parents at 1,000 schools that children may transfer to higher-achieving campuses.
In the South Bay, 12 schools were named to the list of schools, which was created in response to an education reform bill from state Sen. Gloria Romero that was signed into law in January.
On the list: Banning, Carson, Gardena, Leuzinger, Inglewood and Morningside high schools; Monroe Middle school in Inglewood; Peary Middle School in Gardena; Eucalyptus and York elementaries in Hawthorne; Roosevelt Elementary in Lawndale; and Moffett Elementary in Lennox.
Over at California Watch, Louis Freedberg blogged yesterday about the reaction from the California State PTA to the state board of ed vote.
"Our concern is that parents will get that letter and will be needlessly alarmed," said Patty Scripter, an education advocate for the California State PTA. "They will be upset and ask, 'Why is my kid in this situation?' and not be able to do anything about it."
John Fensterwald, an education blogger in Silicon Valley, writes that the "not-ready-for-prime-time landmark law" will be bewildering to parents and an irritant to school districts.
He gets into the nitty-gritty of some of the problems we noted (before and after the SBE vote) with the 10-percent rule that led to the inclusion of some decent-to-good schools on the 1,000 open enrollment (née low-achieving) list.
*And here is a post on Fox & Hounds Daily from SBE member Ben Austin, who advocated for the "parent trigger," another of the reforms that moved forward last week through emergency regulations.
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