Company Pays $14.7 million to State Over Testing Delays
We've written our share of stories about costly state testing foul-ups that resulted in delays, botched scores, and headaches all around. One of the more recent high-profile setbacks occurred in Florida, where a company responsible for delays in reporting on the state's standardized tests has reportedly agreed to pay more than $14.7 million in damages to the state.
Pearson, a major testing company, will pay the state that amount for the late delivery of FCAT scores this past spring, according to the Orlando Sentinel. It will also reimburse individual school districts for their costs, the newspaper reported.
In a Sept. 13 memo to the Florida Department of Education, Pearson official Douglas Kubach said the company was taking steps to not repeat the errors that occurred during the 2009-2010