Opinion: Let the governor choose California's school chief to make needed reforms more likely [Opinion]
California’s emergence as a national outlier on school reform was confirmed after Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008.
The Illinois Democrat created theprogram, in which school districts could receive tens of millions of dollars in federal grants if they adopted performance-based evaluations for teachers and principals that used data systems to evaluate how much students improved year-over-year in one classroom compared with another. Contrary to the depiction of this effort as being an attempt to weed out unfavored teachers, the program emphasized coaching up teachers.
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