Local Control Funding Formula: Led by Governor Jerry Brown (D) and advocacy organizations such as Children Now, California enacted a historic Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013 that targets considerable resources to high - need students and enables far greater local discretion over the use of funds. (attendanceworks.org)
While those students must normally pass the STAAR math and reading exams to be promoted to the next grade level, the commissioner granted leeway this year, making a third test administration optional and allowing local discretion on whether a student who fails the exams should advance. (tcta.org)
Mary Lynch, an Albany Law School professor and former prosecutor, painted the program as bad law enforcement policy that subverts local discretion. (thealt.com)