And Now There are Nine: Pinellas School Board Passes Resolution Against High-Stakes Testing
From Cara Fitzpatrick writing in GRADEBOOK:
The Pinellas County School Board passed an anti-testing resolution after a lengthy discussion Tuesday.
The board voted 6-1 in favor of the resolution, with board member Glenton Gilzean dissenting. All but Gilzean praised the resolution as a long-awaited message to the state.
Linda Lerner said she’d been waiting years for “something like this.”
“I say thank goodness this is finally in our hands,” she said.
Peggy O’Shea said the FCAT has been used in ways that were never intended.
“I think it’s time that the state take a look at the test and say, ‘Is this the right test?’” she said.
But Gilzean said he was “extremely disappointed” in some of the language included in the
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