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>Impeach Kathy Cox! >How does Kathy Cox State School Superintendent solve >her failed Math 123 program which produced a 40% >failure rate? PASS THEM ANYWAYS! > >YES according to the AJC Kathy Cox gives out waivers >with little regard to any standard. > >89% of Georgia fifth graders never passed the CRCT >math test and were promoted! > >In Gwinnet County alone 54% did not have to take a >re-test and still got a waiver for promotion from >Kathy Cox! > >AJC- Most who fail Georgia CRCT are moved up > >Georgia’s high-stakes testing program isn’t so >high-stakes after all. > >A state law aimed at stopping so-called “social >promotion” says students in grades 3, 5 and 8 should >repeat the year when they fail certain standardized >tests. > >But school districts are promoting the vast majority >of those students anyway, even if they fail a >second-chance retest, or blow it off altogether, an >analysis of 2006 and 2007 state data by The Atlanta >Journal-Constitution reveals. > >The findings show state and local educators are >balking at enforcing the 2001 law — routinely >resorting to an appeals process that allows schools to >promote students who never pass the tests. > >“They’ve used that as the rule rather than the >exception,” said former Gov. Roy Barnes, who >championed the law. “Did people think that I was not >serious?” > >Barnes added that the more students are pushed along >without meeting grade-level standards, “the greater >the probability of a dropout.” > >This year, schools across Georgia are inundated with >the most failures on the eighth-grade math >Criterion-Referenced Competency Test since it became >required for promotion in 2006. > >About 38 percent of eighth-graders — more than 46,000 >statewide — bombed the math test this spring. > >Thousands are attending remedial sessions at their >schools, hiring a private tutor or rejiggering >vacation plans to accommodate the summer retest they >hope will be their passport to ninth grade. > >State Superintendent Kathy Cox defended schools’ use >of the appeal process, which allows promotion if the >principal, parent and teacher agree. When she worked >on the bill as a state representative, she said, she >believed it would be used mainly to identify and help >struggling students — not to retain large numbers of >them. > >Read more > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://controlcongress.com/uncategorized/impeach- >kathy-cox">http://controlcongress.com/uncategorized/imp >each-kathy-cox</a>
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