Eastin Unveils Plan To Push Standards in Calif.

By Drew Lindsay

Superintendent Delaine Eastin is pushing a plan to bring standards-based reform to California's schools district by district.

The first-term schools chief last month offered the state's more than 1,000 districts greater autonomy in exchange for a commitment to high standards in content and performance.

Ms. Eastin described her plan as a way to jump-start the standards-based-reform movement in California. That movement stalled in 1994 when Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed the state's testing system for assessing student learning. (See Education...

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