Aycock Proposes New Testing, Graduation Requirements
State Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen, the newly appointed chairman of the House Public Education Committee, filed legislation Wednesday that would restructure the state's high school graduation and student testing requirements.
Aycock's proposal, House Bill 5, would move public schools to an accountability system with grades of A through F, a concept that has drawn support from Sen. Dan Patrick, the Houston Republican who chairs the upper chamber's education committee, and Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams. It would also significantly reduce the number of standardized tests students must pass to graduate.
The legislation removes a requirement that ...
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Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jimmy Don is o.k.
Christopher Thornton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Time to get rid of STAAR and all EOC testing. School is hard enough without worrying about passing an extra test just to graduate. A good friend of mine has a daughter that passed all of her classes and should have graduated but didn't because she could not pass part of the TASK test. She tried several times but failed every time. She was forced to get her GED instead.
JANE JONES
good maybe they will graduate with some knowledge, and quit teaching communist and islamic agendas to any student, this is america not the middle east and not europe or some other country
Dormand Long
While we read headlines about world-class companies complaining about the lack of availability of adequately trained US college graduates to replace their retiring employees, we have hundreds of thousands of college degree holders who cannot find jobs for which many hired are high school graduates.
This signals most profoundly that we have fatally flawed secondary and higher education infrastructures in the US. The best summary of this threat to our economy is the white paper written by the Director of Research of The Hudson Institute, Edwin Rubinstein "The College Payoff Illusion". http://rs.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=2147
If you feel that there are severe public policy problems when we have so many college degree holders with massive student loan indebtedness who are unable to secure a job for which one's peers are high school graduates, you are right.
Too often, those in US schools are merely going through the motions, while students in South Korea, Finland and other well managed countries are getting sound educations in high school.
Our grandchildren are being left federal indebtedness in excess of $16 trillion, Meanwhile the quality of education that we are providing to them in our public schools qualifies them only for employment in a big box store.