Michelle Rhee just getting started on shaping California education policy

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7. One of California's main challenges is that there is a major subset

Of kids in California's public school system that come from other countries.

They don't know English. In the case of many of the kids from South of the border, they are often not here long enough to learn English - just as they start to make some headway, the INS intervenes, or one or both parents decide that life in Los Angeles or wherever is too hectic and dangerous and they return to their native country.

There needs to be some special way to take this into account. Unfortunately with so many educators thinking that a person can tell everything from test scores, that way of evaluating things might be some years away.