No Child Left Behind

State Senate Pro Tem Don PerataCalifornia state senators fired off angry statements at each other Wednesday after a bill on low-performing school district accountability and funding failed to get a required two-thirds vote in that chamber.

The bill, SB 606, would have allowed low-performing districts to use $19 million in federal money that would've otherwise reverted to the federal government. It would have also helped local school boards work to improve their schools with state oversight.