Jim McIntyre Sending $4,000,000 in Public Funds to Pearson for Testing & "Erasure Analysis"
How many billions of dollars has all the damaging and unethical high stakes testing of children cost states and the Federal government over the past 25 years? Not nearly as much a Pearson, CBT/McGraw-Hill, and SAS are planning for in the coming generation of year-round testing in every subject, as they plan to make the status quo permanent.
Just one middle school in New York reported spending $11,625 this spring on the NY state test.
Another figure we know for sure is that Knoxville's Supt. Jim McIntyre, who has recently been pitching his plan for a $35 million budget increase to fund bonus pay for test scores, will send Pearson 4 million Knox County taxpayer dollars this spring to cover security costs for the TCAP state tests.
How many citizens know of this waste of money, even as McIntyre asks for more good resources to spend on failed corporate education deform measures?
Knoxville citizens must remember that just three months McIntyre was planning a $7 million budget cut. What
Just one middle school in New York reported spending $11,625 this spring on the NY state test.
Another figure we know for sure is that Knoxville's Supt. Jim McIntyre, who has recently been pitching his plan for a $35 million budget increase to fund bonus pay for test scores, will send Pearson 4 million Knox County taxpayer dollars this spring to cover security costs for the TCAP state tests.
How many citizens know of this waste of money, even as McIntyre asks for more good resources to spend on failed corporate education deform measures?
Knoxville citizens must remember that just three months McIntyre was planning a $7 million budget cut. What
