Common Core testing frenzy leads to taxpayer funded SBAC Test Prep
In many places across the country, the effort to undermine public education is going alive and well.
In Connecticut, thanks to Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration, the corporate education reform industry is successfully turning public schools into little more than testing factories. These days Malloy also serves as the head of the Democratic Governors Association.
Between the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the new “mandate” that all high school juniors must take the Common Core aligned NEW SAT, public schools are being forced to revamp their instructional programs so that they can fulfill their duties by teaching to the test.
Not only is the “high stakes” testing scheme being used to unfairly label children and evaluate teachers, but school administrators are manic about the possibility that their schools and district may not “look good” in the eyes of the testing industry and its disciples like Governor Malloy who famously said, in 2012, that he “didn’t mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up.”
Just last month the Westport School System sent out a letter to parents urging them not to opt their children out of the inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing program. The letter read;
We are requesting that all students complete the full SBAC assessment this year. The state of Connecticut has set out a list of consequences for districts that do not have 95% of their students take the test in 2016. Prior to 2015 we have always had 99-100% participation. Last year we were the only district in our District Reference Group (DRG A) who did not achieve thisCommon Core testing frenzy leads to taxpayer funded SBAC Test Prep - Wait What?:
