Beware of the DPI: District Performance Index: - Wait, What?

Beware of the DPI: District Performance Index: - Wait, What?:

Beware of the DPI: District Performance Index:

by jonpelto

Forget the “Fiscal Cliff,” Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor are hell-bent on forcing Connecticut to utilize something called a District Performance Index (DPI) and worse, they want to use it to determine how much education funding each community will receive.

To put it bluntly, despite the fact that their concept is completely untested, their solution to education funding and property tax relief is to rely on how well children do on various standardized tests, such as the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT).

The initial creation of a District Performance Index (DPI) was hidden inside Governor