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ALEC: Testing Policy–More are better?
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is advocating that single state assessment tests be replaced with multiple assessment options. State standards remain, and each of the assessment options is supposed to measure them.
The concern with such a multiple test option is that tests differ in their internal structures. The comparability of tests that purport to measure the same standards requires careful validation. Even then, the measurement error simply increases. Parents will not be able to believe the scores.
Using more tests does nothing to correct the negative impact of high stakes testing on students. It, in fact, simply increases the management problems and decreases the validity of any comparative results. Why test if scores on a test one district uses are different from those from another district?
If the assessment systems get anymore complicated than they already are, the whole accountability system may implode. Maybe that is not such a bad idea.
ACLU Finds Illegal Charter School Admissions Policies
Twenty-five percent of California charter schools illegally restrict admissions, according to a new ACLU study. The practices include:
ALEC on Failing Charters: Make it Harder to Close Them
What kind of organization would want to keep failing charter schools afloat? It seems it is the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC. It is a group of state legislators who favor limited government, free markets and federalism. The organization drives an agenda that formulates legislation for states across the country.
ALEC has posted its latest priorities. The first is the Student and Family Fair Notice and Impact Statement Act.
NAACP Drafts Resolution for Moratorium on Charter Schools
If this resolution passed at the NAACP convention last week in Cincinnati is approved by the National Board in the fall of 2016, it will be a major event. In this repost of the Cloaking Inequity blog, you can read the resolution. It deals with racial resegregation, funding inequity, charter school mismanagement, lack of charter oversight, and the resolution calls for greater transparency in charter school management.
The NAACP views charter school policies and practices as a civil rights issue. It is.
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