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What parents need to know about California’s Common Core-aligned tests
Tomorrow, the California Department of Education plans to release the first year’s results of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium test. EdSource

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After Deasy, LAUSD faces tough choice: Play it safe or take a risk?
At key moments of tumult in the district, the records show, Deasy was simply not in town. Los Angeles Times

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State audit gives L.A. Unified better marks in handling abuse cases
The nation’s second-largest school system made “dramatic improvements” in conducting faster investigations, auditors wrote. Los Angeles Times

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What happened with the $100 million Newark schools got from Zuckerberg?
A new book delves into how the project went wrong. Hechinger Report

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Schools face incomplete data after Common Core test troubles
Many states had technical issues with the electronic form that left them unable to complete the testing. Associated Press

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Body cams in the classroom? Controversy erupts in Iowa 
The plan to outfit about administrators in the Burlington Community School District with clip-on cameras took shape at the end of the school year. The Seventy Four