Race to the Top Mandates Impossible to Implement – The Huffington Post « Continuing Change

Race to the Top Mandates Impossible to Implement – The Huffington Post « Continuing Change:

Race to the Top Mandates Impossible to Implement – The Huffington Post

by gatorbonbc

Here in Florida, RTTT is known as SB6/SB736 … It is an unfunded mandate:
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It requires testing four times a year at a ridiculous cost, but provides no money to local districts to develop or validate tests.

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It also promises merit pay in trade for teacher continuing contracts, but provides no funds for merit pay.

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And, worse, it requires states to remove the cap off charter schools.

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It sets up failure and privatization at the same