Opportunity to Learn Standards

One of the tough-minded structural changes at the heart of the plan will transform California's K-12 schools is the development of Opportunity to Learn Standards" that specify what government agencies—the state and school districts—must provide all schools.  These standards spell out the educational essentials that many California students now lack: a qualified teacher, a curriculum aligned with the state's standards, enough texts and materials for both classroom use and homework, clean and safe learning environments and so forth.  It's simply unthinkable that California doesn't have such standards already. 
The master plan also restructures the accountability system to make the adults in the system—from the governor on down—answerable to children and communities, rather than vice versa.  The performance of these adults would be measured and reported each year in an "Opportunity to Learn Index" that would complement the state's Academic Performance Index, which measures student performance at each school.  Rather than judging students (and their schools) only by the number of correct answers students "bubble in" on standardized tests, students' learning will be linked to what they had a chance to learn—what their teachers taught, and under what conditions their learning took place.  The independently elected state superintendent would become the accountability watchdog, providing the public with the information it needs to hold state agencies, school districts, and schools accountable for providing what teachers and students need to teach and learn.  Parents and communities would have ways to act when the system fails.  What do you all think about this?