Florida Can Look to Texas for Relief from Jeb Bush’s Testing Regime | Scathing Purple Musings

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Florida Can Look to Texas for Relief from Jeb Bush’s Testing Regime

by Bob Sikes

Following the lead Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott’s provided with his description of standardized testing as a “perversion of its original intent,” some North Texas superintendents joined in agreement. Writes Rodger Jones in the Dallas Morning News:

Saying high-stakes standardized testing is “strangling our public schools,” superintendents of several high-performing North Texas school districts have jointly signed a letter to top state officials and lawmakers warning about the deterioration of the education system.

Call it open rebellion against the 25-year-old testing regimen. Wow.

The letter goes out to back up Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott, according to Coppell