Posted on 09/24/2022 4:22:27 AM PDT by karpov
In a significant departure, the California Department of Education is withholding the release of the results of the Smarter Balanced tests that students took last spring until an undetermined date later this year. The result will be a monthslong delay before the public can view results in English language arts, math and science for the state, districts, schools and charter schools.
The denial of EdSource’s request to release test score data comes at a time when educators are concerned about the pandemic’s impact on reading and math progress, especially in the early years. Releasing scores “later this year” means that the public will learn about spring test results for third-graders who are now well into fourth grade.
The California Department of Education told EdSource that it is withholding the scores now, so they can be simultaneously released with other data for the California School Dashboard, such as student absentee rates, suspension rates and rates of chronic absenteeism. The dashboard provides a detailed look at school and district metrics, broken down by student demographic groups. The data is used to determine which low-performing districts require state assistance.
The state has not said when it plans to release the updated dashboard, but if it is released after Nov. 8, the Smarter Balanced results won’t surface as an election year issue – both for local school board races and for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who runs the California Department of Education and is facing re-election this year. Thurmond did not comment on the test scores release date. That updated dashboard has been released between November and January in past years.
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California is afraid of voters voting Republican.
The blatantly obvious child hiding their bad report card.
I can guarantee ya the math scores are horrid especially if they were all taught online.
That too...
Absolutely no one can’t see what this is all about.
Ignoring coincidences that highlight leftist policy failures and our descent into third world status.
Give them a break. It takes time to cook data and hide massive failure.
Maybe they’re so proud of them, they want to save the good news for a special occasion!
Surely this is in best interest of their students./ Sarcasm
California Department of Education is withholding the release of the results of the Smarter Balanced tests that students took last spring ...
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Everything governments do has the exact opposite of how it is named. You can bet if the test scores were good, they would be released now, before the election.
I imagine the kiddies were only taught CRT and leftist indoctrination.
No time for that other stuff.
Use CA’s Public Records Act to get the info.
If CA refuses to cough it up then it gets caught violating it’s own state law.
...its...
Make CA show its real face to voters.
They sound like they are operated by Pfizer.
But then, of course, we have to wait for the test scores
to see if this is really true...
/sarc
Do you still press 1 for English in California, or has that number been reassigned?
Hence the campaign to paint all as DVEs, Conservatives & republicans alike.
Figure the results are bad
They’d trumpet them if they were good
California ranks No. 24 overall among U.S. states based on 71 metrics across eight categories.
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