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It’s almost too juicy

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Pineapplegate. Just the kind of incredibly stupid, embarrassing testing scandal that President Obama and other candidates need to take seriously as they head into the summer campaign season.
Don’t be on the wrong side of the pineapple, folks.
I’ll have to admit that it was a lot of fun watching this story roll out with my friend and PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson when we were in Washington DC for the US Department of Education parent meeting.
Leonie first broke the story on her NYC Parents blog. Her son is in eighth grade in NYC and told her about the ridiculous story and the questions he had had to answer about it on the New York State Regents exam, Leonie pointed out that this same story and questions had been used on the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests