BILL NUMBER:  AB 532
  VETOED	DATE: 10/08/2011




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

The State has recently embarked on the implementation of Common Core
standards and a related assessment system which will become
operational in 2014-15. This new system is expected to provide
important and useful information about student achievement in math
and English.

This bill would require that similar tests be developed, administered
and scored for students for whom English is not their primary
language.  These requirements would result in major new test
development and administration costs which we can ill afford.  The
assessments required by this bill for just one language are estimated
to cost as much as $50 million; the total costs for covering all 55
languages spoken by California students is unknown but obviously
substantial.

I am returning Assembly Bill 532 without my signature.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.