School Districts Take Advantage of STAAR Rule Change
As the first of 2.5 million Texas public school students prepare to take new state-mandated standardized tests next week, ninth graders in at least a third of the state’s school districts won’t have to worry about how the test will affect their end-of-year grades.
As of Tuesday, 405 of the state’s roughly 1,200 school districts had told the Texas Education Agency that they would not factor State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) scores into students’ grades for the 2011-12 school year.
The districts have said they will defer the implementation of a rule ...
Comments (4)
Kathy Kennemer Genet via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Now it's time for the debate: do these expensive tests (in tax money given to private test development companies and in time taken away from teaching to students) even get us where we want to go? Are the kids more energized about learning? Are they mastering a wider bredth of material? Is the money given to the testing companies better spent than if we had given it directly to the schools?
Shawn AndMichelle Wehmeyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@ Kathy - I would answer NO, NO, NO, and NO! Great questions!
Edy Chamness via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Standardized testing is such a HUGE waste of taxpayer money.
Johnnie Ellis Gaede via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Years ago we had high school EOC testing and it went away. Why did it have to come back? What do we truly get from these expensive tests? I think nothing.