I wonder how a student's SAT/ACT scores matter in the work-a-day world (today's teachers being those students). I understand the lawsuit on those grounds....
The SAT verbal used to be an IQ test, but because the left didn’t like the like the scores of women and minorities, it was changed to a reading comprehension test. The math portion of the test is essentially an achievement test, also. So, if reading and math matter, the scores today matter. I’m sure whatever the program was, it rewarded some measure of “value added”. The LAT did a survey a few years ago and found that more experience and more teacher union approved credentials negatively correlated with classroom result. In my experience, the more intelligent, capable teachers are gone within the first five years. Those who can’t find indoor work with no heavy lifting anywhere else tend to stay. In government schools, the rule is reverse Darwin, the survival of the unfittest.
I work in an educational setting in Florida (not a teacher).
The awards are based on the teachers’ ACT or SAT scores. Older teachers either didn’t have to take the test, or the scores are long-ago inaccessible.
And really, if you are a 55 year old teacher, who has been teaching successfully for 30+ years, who gives a shit what score you got on a test when you were 17?
It’s a ridiculous program and a stupid way to spend taxpayer money. I am all for TRUE merit based recognition, but I’m not at all surprised that teachers are filing lawsuits.