WYMT News reports that legislators are upset with the lack of “bang for the buck” with Kentucky’s expensive CATS tests and are likely to take another shot at ending this troubled program during the current legislative session.
It’s clear from the reader comments to the Web article that there is plenty of public sentiment against CATS, as well. They must have been reading our analyses of this inflated and untrustworthy program.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Look for a Fight on the CATS School Assessments
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Thanks for helping to wake folks up BIPPS.
CATS is merely a symptom of the negative concept of state controlled education.
Recently, a private teacher in Kentucky received a letter from a parent who pulled her child from the private school and placed her into a public school, elementary.
The parent was wanting her child back in the private school for several reasons, but specifically mentioned how they moved her kid into a lower achieving class so that she could help raise the average test scores in that class. The public school teachers actually told her that is why they moved her child.
The child is one of only two non-minority kids in that class now. Is this how Kentucky teachers are bridging the achievement gap between non-minority and minority students, by sacrificing the non-minority students? Amazing!
“[State controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
– Joseph Stalin
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