Still shenanigans on the state edu test front.
Bottomline, the scores will not be going home with students before Tuesday’s elections, although the school scores can be had at the Department of Public Instruction website.
What is fascinating is that not even the local superintendents totally buy Raleigh’s stated reason for the delay: Howard Lee’s bum knee.
In fact, now Lee says that the past 24 hours have poof! given him the time to discern that the test results are “valid” and that teacher bonuses based on those scores will, in fact, be paid out by Christmas. No, nothing curious there at all.
The upshot is merely that Raleigh can find a way to signal teachers and districts that more money is on the way, but cannot find a way to validate those test scores fast enough to get them in the hands of parents/voters immediately before an election.
And people wonder why the public education establishment has credibility problems.
Bonus observation: CMS chief Peter Gorman has been dangerously candid in all of this. Raleigh may not like that.
