The Collapse of Florida’s Test-Based Accountabilty Regime Has Reached Stage Two | Scathing Purple Musings

The Collapse of Florida’s Test-Based Accountabilty Regime Has Reached Stage Two | Scathing Purple Musings:

The Collapse of Florida’s Test-Based Accountabilty Regime Has Reached Stage Two

by Bob Sikes

St. Lucie County Superintendent of Schools, Michael Lannon isn’t happy with Florida’s school grade system. From reporter Kelly Tyko of Scripps Treasure Coast News:

“The manipulated testing, judging and accountability culture that has developed in Florida is now so greatly politically driven that I believe the (state board of education) and (Department of Education) have destroyed the credibility of assessment in our state,” St. Lucie County Schools Superintendent Michael Lannon wrote in an email to Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers on Friday. “I am greatly disturbed by the manipulation as it gets in the way of great teaching and engaged learning.”………”The artificial grade is what it is,” Lannon said. “Our perspective has always been that all this merely shifts the emphasis away from making continuous progress,