Rick Scott: “Should we get rid of the FCAT and just go with the ACT?”
Maybe Rick Scott really has seen the light. After meeting with parents and teachers in Boca Raton yesterday,Sun Sentinel reporter Anne Geggis reported this:
For his first year-and-a-half in office, Gov. Scott seemed at odds with many parents and teachers by supporting the state’s use of high stakes testing for everything from teacher pay to student promotion. He signed teacher performance pay legislation in 2011 that bases teacher pay largely on how well students perform on standardized tests and also eliminated teacher tenure for new teachers.