Manatee Adopts High-Stakes Tests Resolution; Meanwhile Bushies Become the New Status Quoers
From Chritine Hawes in the Bradenton Herald:
MANATEE — With an extra nod toward “accountability,” the Manatee County School Board Monday approved its own version of a resolution approved by 12 other Florida school boards that objects to the importance placed on standardized tests like the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
Manatee’s resolution was written collectively by board members and asks state and federal lawmakers to find another way to hold students and schools accountable. The resolution specifically reaches out to Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Legislature, the state Department of Education, Congress and the presidential administration.
It calls on state officials “to reexamine public school accountability systems in the State of Florida,
