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John Kuhn Roars Back: Texans Rebel Against Testing - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

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John Kuhn Roars Back: Texans Rebel Against Testing

Texas has become a hotspot of rebellion against standardized testing. Earlier this year, state education commissioner Robert Scott compared test publishers to the military industrial complex. More than 100 school districts have passed a resolution saying standardized testing is "strangling" their schools. And on Saturday,several thousand Texans gathered at the state capitol in Austin for the Save Texas Schools rally. One of the speakers was a man we first heard at a similar protest more than a year ago, Superintendent John Kuhn.
Here is what Superintendent Kuhn had to say.
When a government fails to safeguard the development of its most vulnerable children and fails to ensure the advancement of their well-being;

When the Constitution no longer guides its leaders and the people must sue the state to force it to honor its