The new school data site performs a promise made by Newsom

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GAVIN NEWSOM can – and must – be guilty to make promises to the campaign six years ago that it must have known that it was impossible to achieve, such as its vows to create Health care with one payment and Build 3.5 million new residential unitsS

When he reminded them, after becoming a manager, he rejected them as “ambitious”, a warning he ignored to attach to his original promises.

Nevertheless, the loan is due when one of his promises becomes a reality as he did this week when the state starts the beginning of a long -needed system of Tracking how they deal with students in the public school In classrooms and later in life.

Thehe Cradle Project released its first batch of numbers, along with video tutorials How to access data.

“With the C2C Student Trail Management Dashboard, Californians can visualize their future by seeing excluded data from all sectors and earlier inaccessible insights, all in one place,” a Newsom message said. “Golden State is again leading the way to innovation, connecting our workforce education system to ensure that everyone has the freedom to succeed.”

However, not all in the radical ranks of education researchers and reformers sound praise for Newsom.

Alex Barrios, President of the Educational Results Partnership, supported by the Business Coalition for Educational Policy, complained that “the dashboard is unable to do what it promised. It does not represent the trips of all students and how they move to and through a career.

“Following the career trajectories of graduates alone, he assumes that the only way to success for students is a four -year college degree,” Bario said.

The new data system should include all the factors that the Barrio organization lists, but its criticism may be premature as employees say they intend to expand the project scope as quickly as they can receive data.

Assuming that the project is expanding its scope, C2C, as it is called, will not only be a lasting achievement for Newsom, but will fill a void that exists too long. Without reliable data on the results, the largest school system in the country works in a vacuum for accountability, which seems to be the educational establishment.

The State Department of Education has “control panel“This wants to give parents, taxpayers and voters a picture of how well the schools do their jobs. However, the current system is a mishmash of Educational jargon that is difficult to decipher. It also distorts evaluations in ways that minimize actual academic achievements, such as reading, writing and mathematics, and increase the peripheral factors it calls “multiple measures”.

Thus, this downplays the fact that students in California are doing very poorly against those in other states and the “difference in achievements” still divides widely divided students with low incomes and English from those with more privileged circumstances.

Education reformers have long insisted on receiving and publishing more objective and complete data, especially since former governor Jerry Brown and the legislature repaired school finance a decade ago to provide more funds to schools with a considerable number of what was called “risky” students.

The better numbers, the reformers said, to provide a clear understanding of whether the formula for financing local control of Brown is working.

Brown, however, supported the preference of the education institution to Getting money without strict accountability How it is spent and whether it has a positive effect. He said he trusts that local school staff would spend the extra money reasonably calling them. “subsidiarity“A secular version of a vague religious principle.

After Newsom succeeded, Brown quickly turned this position and called for a comprehensive data system to track how students go through and after traveling through the school system. The legislature responded by resolving the C2C system.

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