The Fresno Bee has yet another article about the testing backlash in California (this article also mentions the story of Ms. Robinson's suicide linked below). The old conundrum of high-stakes vs. no-stakes comes up again here - no one wants to penalize kids for their performance on tests designed to assess schools, but the result is that there's less incentive for kids to perform well on those tests, and less incentive for teachers to teach that material. If the claim that California has "no coherent system for accountability" is true, change is definitely necessary, although I have my doubts about the capability of AB2347 to produce the desired coherent testing system.