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Let School Districts Decide

November 30, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

A Governor who believes local control is important – what a novel concept! From The Texas Tribune: Gov. Rick Perry is expressing his support for letting school districts themselves choose whether to implement a rule that requires new state assessments to count for 15 percent of high school students’ final grades. In a written statement […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: Dan Patrick, end of class assessments, Michael Williams, Rick Perry, Texas Education Agency

Florida Private Schools Discriminated Against By End of Course Assessment Requirements

August 20, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Board of Education have imposed testing expectations on schools, and a couple of emails I’ve received demonstrates that the regulations are discriminatory toward private schools.  I don’t know if this is intentional or by design, but it must be addressed. These emails were made public by the Project […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: Darlene Hellender, Dennis Robinson, end of class assessments, Florida Board of Education, Florida League of Christian Schools, Polk County Public Schools, private schools, Rick Scott, Trinity Christian Academy, Volusia County Schools

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"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

- Donald Campbell

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