In response, we pulled the bill into our committee that will allow the community colleges to charge the high schools for all the kids that they have to remediate. That blew the cap off the Capitol Building because it's millions of dollars. We paid for those kids to be able to learn those very things. And that's not what is taking place. They're not learning things that are so important.
Testing is an essential, key part of the education overhaul.
If you're in a state where you're moving toward assessments, then know that you're headed down the wrong road. Assessing is not testing. Assessment determines value or worth. It has nothing to do with norm-referenced tests where parents can measure the performance of their children to others in knowledge content. Assessments are being sold as local control all across the country.