Hooray! Let’s hear it for more standardized testing! Go Bridgeport!
by jonpelto
It is hard to imagine that Team Paul Vallas could do a better job revealing their true stripes, again.
Yesterday, Sandra Kase, Paul Vallas’ “Chief Administrative Officer,” sent out a memo entitled “prime time for student learning.”
No, the memo was not about expanding instructional time, nor was it about broadening students’ horizons by bringing back some of the missing “specials,” nor was it about enhancing the schools bilingual program, not was it about undoing the damage to the school system’s special education programs. It was the instructions about the next round of standardized testing.
Kase writes;
“There will be another administration of the benchmark
$100,000 to the College Board gets “free” SAT testing for all Hartford juniors and seniors.
by jonpelto
| Categories: Hartford, Standardized Testing, Steven Adamowski Tags: Hartford, SATs, Standardized Testing A flurry of publicity and news coverage followed the recent decision by the Hartford Board of Education when they rejected Superintendent Christina Kishimoto’s request to renew a contract with the College Board, the organization that conducts the SATs, a standardized test used by many colleges as part of their application process. For $100,000, the College [...] |
