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ERIC Number: EJ796150
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1539-9664
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No Country for Strong Men: California Unions Tame the Terminator
Weintraub, Daniel
Education Next, v8 n3 p21-27 Sum 2008
When in 2006 California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a panel of education experts to recommend an overhaul of the state's troubled public schools, observers hoped the celebrity chief executive was about to bring his unique brand of postpartisan politics to an issue that sorely needed it. However, that optimism faded when Schwarzenegger, confronting a growing deficit in the state budget, shelved most of the far-reaching recommendations that his own commission sent his way. It would be neither fair nor practical, the governor said in January 2008, to ask the education community to accept a major dose of reform at the same time that he was proposing to cut state spending on the schools. Observers note that Schwarzenegger has not made education policy a priority and that his policy remains mostly hands-off since he was elected. In this article, the author critiques some of Schwarzenegger's education policies. (Contains 4 figures.)
Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010. Tel: 800-935-2882; Fax: 650-723-8626; e-mail: educationnext@hoover.stanford.edu; Web site: http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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