Use tests to show that school choice works, Florida senator proposes
If Florida is to continue down the road of expanding school choice options, including into private schools, Sen. Bill Montford wants to hold the receiving schools accountable for providing a quality education to students using those choices.
Montford has proposed in a newly filed bill that students who enroll in the state approved choice programs -- including McKay scholarship, Tax Credit Scholarship, home school and private tutoring -- must upon entry take a take a nationally norm-referenced assessment test, selected by the Department of Education, "for diagnostic purposes and for purposes of placing the student in the appropriate classes
