Will Weatherford, Like Levesque Ignores Crippling Remediation Rates in FCAT Spin
Defense of FCAT and Jeb Bush’s high-states test regime has been limited to his Gang of Four in policy wonk Patricia Levesque, former Bush ed commissioner John Winn, former Bush chief of staff and current BOE chair Kathleen Shanahan and embattled current education commissioner Gerard Robinson. Realizing they needed someone else, Florida speaker-in-waiting Will Weatherford was recruited. It’s easy to dispatch with Weatherford’s opinion piece that will be published in tomorrow’s Tampa Bay Times. The speaker-designate used identical talking points to those which Patricia Levesque used last week. Weatherford, like Levesque painted FCAT as virtuous for “Florida’s students are achieving more than ever before.”
Both Levesque and Robinson are touting improved graduation rates-particularly among African-American and Hispanic students. It’s beyond me what FCAT has to do with that as these kids last took FCAT two years ago. No word on how many among these sub-groups – or any group for that matter – graduated with the assistance of
Both Levesque and Robinson are touting improved graduation rates-particularly among African-American and Hispanic students. It’s beyond me what FCAT has to do with that as these kids last took FCAT two years ago. No word on how many among these sub-groups – or any group for that matter – graduated with the assistance of