The Unfunded Mandate of Florida’s Test-Dominated Education System and the Potential for Crony Capitalism
It’s FCAT week around Florida and schools still are scrambling with logistics. Allison Ross of the Palm Beach Post has more:
Ridge High School got a special delivery this month: nearly 400 new laptop computers.
But that still may not be enough.
Because the tens of thousands of computers at Palm Beach County schools are used more and more for testing, teachers and students can’t rely on them for lessons, research and other educational purposes.
“This is a major inconvenience to student learning,” Superintendent Wayne Gent told board