Key Florida Democrat Lawmaker Calls for Time-Out on Statewide Testing
Reports James Call in the Florida Current:
A top lawmaker wants to call a time-out on statewide testing of Florida’s students and grading of public schools.
“We’ve got teachers whose lives and students whose lives are impacted by an assessment system which is not accurate,” said Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, vice chairman of the Senate Appropriation Education Committee. “We’ve got to stop, stop and see where we are.”
Friday Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson informed school districts that recently announced annual grades for elementary and middle schools were wrong. The grades are based o
Suggestion for Florida’s Education Policy Makers – “Living By the Same Accountability Mantra They Preach to Others”
A second widely read columnist picked up their pen today and pummeled Florida’s “test-obsessed” accountability system and the policy-makers who drive it. Writing in the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Maxwell dishes out his typical brand of clever acerbity and gives out his own grades. They weren’t very good and his summation has even more bite.
This state is obviously having problems, yet anyone who objects is branded as anti-accountability.