Common Core Testing Fiasco – More evidence the entire scheme is a failure
The Corporate Education Reform Industry and its allies like President Obama, Former President George W. Bush, presidential candidate Jeb Bush and governors Andrew Cuomo and Dannel Malloy has repeated claimed that the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme, diverting scarce public funds to charter schools, privatizing public education and evaluating teachers based on the Common Core test results would be good for the nation’s public school students, their parents and the country’s future.
As a result of their ill-conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money. Taxpayers, students, parents, teachers and public schools are the losers and the truth about the absurd Common Core testing scam becomes clear every day.
A new independent study authorized by Florida’s legislatures report recently reported that,
“[This year’s Common Core Test] passing scores were not established through a formal standard setting process and therefore do not represent a criterion-based measure of student knowledge and skills”
A statement is a condemnation of a failed testing system that some officials, especially here in Connecticut, continue to defend.
The new Florida report was authored by Alpine Testing Solutions and edCount, LLC and was completed as a result of Florida House Bill 7069 which was signed into law on April 14, 2015.
The Florida law required that, “An Independent Verification of the Psychometric Validity of Florida’s 2015 Common Core testing program” be completed and that a reported on the Common Core Testing Fiasco – More evidence the entire scheme is a failure - Wait What?: