Analyst Says California Should Not Forego Test Data

Jack Mosbacher, an analyst at California Common Sense, writes in a column in the Los Angeles Times (9/20) about the impasse between California and ED officials over the state’s plans to hasten its transition to Common Core-linked assessments, arguing that given changes to the state’s education funding formula and other policy changes, “a year without [student test] data is unacceptable.”

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