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Charter school propaganda on a standardized test | Seattle Education

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Charter school propaganda on a standardized test

It seems that the corporate reformers will go to any length to spread their propaganda in an effort to privatize all schools.
Below is an article in full by a PAA Founding Member Julie Woestehoff that was first published on the blog PURE, Parents United for Responsible Education.
Today, with some help from me, Chicago Sun-Times education reporter Rosalind Rossi exposes yet another standardized testing scandal, this one on a Scantron test that was used several times in the Chicago Public Schools as part of an interim, or benchmark, reading assessment.
Scantron is a national standardized test that CPS has been using for a couple of years as a computerized replacement for the quarterly Learning First and Benchmark Assessment tests. These tests cover a narrow set of skills and are essentially practice tests for the annual Illinois Standards Assessment Tests (ISAT). This is the