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The state budget impasse may be breaking quickly, according to this update from States School News Service:
"It
appears the House and Senate are about to pass a full-year FY 2008 budget this
weekend."
Read below for all sorts of scoop on special ed, school construction, and funding source fun.
ISBE's Jesse Ruiz should just let this go, but instead he insists on defending the use of a May 1 enrollment cutoff for NCLB scores (Rule helps evaluate schools more fairly) and -- this is rich -- claiming that the 283,000 not-counted scores are still used for statewide averages and to gauge the performance of individual students. Riiight.
So maybe October 1 (the old cutoff) is too late to be fair to schools. But May 1 seems arbitrary. How about September 1, or -- if you're really concerned with being fair to schools -- the first day in March when the previous year's ISAT testing is completed, or nearly a year before the next round of testing?
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