Davis Gets So-So Marks in Education

LA Times ^ | 09/04/02 | BRUCE FULLER

[gubamyster]

The governor is going to have to work a lot harder to assist schools.

By BRUCE FULLER, Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley, is co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education.

Gov. Gray Davis promised in 1999 not to run again if his school reforms failed to boost children's achievement. With scores up four years running--even in sluggish urban systems like Los Angeles--the governor should be riding high.

Yet many front-line teachers claim that Davis is more focused on testing and looking tough on schools than on providing the resources needed to meet his higher standards. And evidence mounts that the system still reinforces achievement gaps, favoring kids and teachers in suburbs.

Here's a report card on Davis' efforts to improve schools.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Carry_Okie]

Reducing class sizes raised the cost 35% while doing very little to improve classroom performance. It helped the wealthier districts and screwed the inner city kids.

I don't call that a so-so record. It's abetting the decline.

[Saundra Duffy]

Gray Davis is a whore.

[dalereed]

50+ years ago when I was in school the minimum class size was 34, if there wasn't that many 2 classes were combined. There wasn't a learning problem then but there was also disipline at school and in the home.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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