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Thursday, February 25, 2016

As Malloy claims ELA Performance Task not useful his lies and deception about the Common Core SBAC test catch up to him - Wait What?

As Malloy claims ELA Performance Task not useful his lies and deception about the Common Core SBAC test catch up to him - Wait What?:
As Malloy claims ELA Performance Task not useful his lies and deception about the Common Core SBAC test catch up to him



Earlier today, Governor Dannel Malloy held a media event at a Cromwell Connecticut elementary school to announce his new step to “REDUCE STATE TESTING.”
The press release headline proclaimed:
New Step to Limit Smarter Balanced Exam Builds on Effort  to Help Districts Spend Less Time Testing and More Time Teaching
In reality, the Malloy administration’s entire maneuver was nothing be a farce designed to, once again, mislead Connecticut’s students, parents, teachers and taxpayers about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the fact that the tests are wasting millions of dollars in scarce public resources and turning public schools into little more than testing factories.
You can read more about this late breaking development at Malloy’s Strategy on Common Core SBAC Test – Look busy and make sh*t up
By pulling aside the curtain or blowing away the smokescreen the truth become very clear;
Today Malloy and his administration proclaimed:
“When we know an exam won’t improve our understanding of a student’s standing, and we know it won’t necessarily improve teaching quality, then we should eliminate it so it doesn’t burden 
As Malloy claims ELA Performance Task not useful his lies and deception about the Common Core SBAC test catch up to him - Wait What?: