A surprising candidate for Florida education chief
Last December I published a post about a school board member in Florida who decided to take one of the standardized tests that students
(bigstock)are forced to take. He wasn’t allowed to take the exact test so a similar one was created for him. He took math and reading tests with questions for 10th graders — and flunked.
(bigstock)are forced to take. He wasn’t allowed to take the exact test so a similar one was created for him. He took math and reading tests with questions for 10th graders — and flunked.
That man is Rick Roach, who is in his fourth four-year term representing District 3 on the Board of Education in Orange County, Fla., a public school system with 180,000 students.
Since his testing experiment, Roach has been vocal about the many problems with the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, and is a member of the Central Florida School Board Coalition, which released a white paper a few months ago that concluded that the FCAT is being