Education Policy is Politics; Politics is Education Policy
by jonpelto
Today’s Courant headline reads – “State Keeps Lid On Mastery Test Scores.”
Wait, What? Does that mean the State of Connecticut won’t release the results of this year’s Master Test results?
No, instead watch for a Friday press conference where Governor Dan Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor can attempt to take credit for what appear to be the higher test scores that students got on this year’s Connecticut’s Mastery Tests.
For background, in March of each year, the “teaching to the test” approach to American Education reaches its crescendo as Connecticut students stop practicing taking standardized tests and actually spend two weeks taking Connecticut’s barrage of tests.
After spending millions to design, buy and scores the tests, the results arrive in mid-July of each year.
Connecticut’s results are in and it turns out Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan
Malloy to make major economic development announcement this morning
by jonpelto
Late yesterday, Governor Malloy’s press operation released a media advisory that “On Wednesday morning, Governor Dannel P. Malloy will hold a news conference in North Haven to announce the details of a new international company that will be establishing its headquarters in Connecticut and creating hundreds of jobs in the state.”
Using scarce tax dollars (the state is facing a major budget deficit), Connecticut’s governor, like governors all across the nation, will provide another company with an