Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

Your recent report "Fate of California Testing Unclear After Wilson's Veto" (Oct. 5, 1994) omitted some important details in its description of Gov. Pete Wilson's proposal for a revised state pupil-assessment system.

Specifically, while Governor Wilson has proposed that one part of the system provide individual results from basic-skills achievement tests administered by school districts, it is absolutely not true that any existing commercially available test would suffice for this purpose. Rather, under the Governor's proposal, districts would receive funding only for administering tests that had been approved by the state board of education. State board approval, in turn, would be granted only to tests that were aligned with California's curriculum frameworks and were capable of providing valid, reliable, and...