The Unanswered Questions of Florida’s Test-Based Accountability Systems
While the folks at Gerard Robinson’s DOE and Jeb Bush’s foundations want the controversy over the state’s accountability system to just go away, it won’t even if the media stops covering it. Consequences and damage remain. So do the smothering legislative tools. In a letter-to-the-editor to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Marie Eggert explains:
Recently, it was announced that six Volusia County schools earned higher grades than originally reported because of errors in the way their earlier ratings had been calculated.
Now, let us review the impact these scores have on our schools:
•These ever-shifting scores are used to determine student placement in classes.
•They are used to determine who will graduate high school and who will pass from third to fourth