wilson also enacted education reforms aimed at creating statewide curriculum standards, reducing class size and replacing social promotion with early remedial education. wilson promoted standardized testing of all students, increased teacher training, and a longer school year. however, it was wilson's uncompromising stance on reducing education spending that led to the budget impasse of 1992, leaving state workers without paychecks from july until september, when the california supreme court forced the governor and the legislature to agree to terms that ended the sixty-three-day stand-off.