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Report of the Working Group on
Governance CONCLUSION The Governance Working Group began with a strong consensus around the governance issues that need to be addressed. Over the course of almost a year of regular meetings, the Group hammered out various proposals to address the problems it identified. In numerous meetings, the Group reconfigured the recommendations of previous meetings, in part because some members were unable to attend every meeting. In the end, after careful and thorough deliberation, the Group reached positive agreement on its key recommendations. This Group sends with this report the clear message that with respect to governance of the California education system, accountability is the key. The most pressing overall need is for the consistent collection of K-16 data by a credible entity. And the greatest systemic governance problem is lack of coordination. But it is the hope of the group that the Joint Committee will look to more than the recommendations in this report for issues to address in the Master Plan. The Master Plan should be designed for a span 15 to 20 years, and, as such, may outgrow some of the specific recommendations that may be adopted from this report into the Plan. But much of the other information in this report, such as the Governance Guiding Principles, the Governance Desired Outcomes, and the Rationale for the Recommendations, may be useful throughout the evolution of the Master Plan for Education, and will therefore, the Group hopes, be incorporated into it.
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