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Lee County School Board Bullied Into Rescinding Vote to Ban Assessments

September 3, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

The State of Florida bullied the Lee County School Board into rescinding its previous vote banning all assessments in the Southwest Florida school district. The state threatened the district saying they would “lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and that its graduates diplomas would be worthless.” Here is the video coverage from the […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: common core assessments, FCAT, Lee County Schools (Florida)

Lee County Schools in Florida Votes to Opt-Out of State Mandated Testing

August 28, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

The Lee County School Board voted last night 3-2 to opt their students out of state-mandated testing.  Lee County is in SW Florida and includes the city of Fort Myers.  They are the first school district in Florida to push back against an out-of-control assessment culture in the state that includes means-testing kindergarteners. A local […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: common core assessments, FCAT, Lee County Schools (Florida), parental opt out, standardized testing

Race-Based Academic Goals

October 15, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

I couldn’t let news out of Florida late last week go by without comment.  CBS Tampa reported that the Florida State Board of Education passed a plan for racially-based academic goals. On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: FCAT, Florida State Board of Education, Kathleen Shanahan, NCLB waivers

In Defense of the FCAT

July 16, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

I’ve been pretty critical of Florida’s high stakes testing.  Matthew Ladner wrote a guest op/ed for the Ocala Star-Banner defending the FCAT and in it he makes some good points that FCAT opponents should consider  Laudner is the senior adviser for policy and research at the Foundation for Excellence in Education.  He wrote: A recent problem […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: FCAT, high stakes testing, Matthew Ladner, Ocala Star-Banner

The Anti-Testing Rebellion

June 2, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Is sweeping the nation.  In Texas 445 school districts have joined together in adopting a resolution calling on their state lawmakers to decrease the emphasis on high-stakes standardized testing.  Robert Scott, the Texas Education Commissioner back in February said that the focus on high stakes testing has become a “perversion” of what policymakers had intended. […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: FCAT, Michael Benjamin, New York City Schools, No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, Texas schools

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