Federal and state funding rates for special education would be equalized across California and new special education teachers would be authorized to teach general education if draft recommendations from a task force presented on Wednesday are implemented.
Read More at EdSource: California task force urges reform of special education funding
In what might be the first of several high-profile moves to refocus the state’s K-12 student testing system in the wake of Common Core adoption, legislation was introduced late last week to suspend California’s High School Exit Examination and remove it as a condition of graduation beginning with the 2016-17 school year.
Read more at Cabinet Report:Bill would suspend high school exit exam