Deception and Spin From the Florida Board of Education
Jeb Bush’s cronies blinked.
Lost – for now anyway – in today’s hastily thrown together decision by the Florida Board of Education to reduce passing FCAT Writing scores, was yesterday’s sloppy attempt to spin the numbers. Gradebook’s Jeff Solochek reports on this response from board member Akshay Desai:
Lost – for now anyway – in today’s hastily thrown together decision by the Florida Board of Education to reduce passing FCAT Writing scores, was yesterday’s sloppy attempt to spin the numbers. Gradebook’s Jeff Solochek reports on this response from board member Akshay Desai:
“There was a huge impact when the number of scorers and their options changed. In 2011, there was only one scorer and the scoring choices were even numbers 1 through 6. Last year, our board became worried about the cutback to just one scorer.
”Happily, the legislature now supports two scorers, with greater differentiation using half-point