OCPA: Testing results show need to fund students, not systems

Testing results show need to fund students, not systems By Jonathan Small There’s an old Simpsons episode where Bart’s teacher hands out state testing forms and informs her students, “Remember, class, the worse you do on this standardized test the more funding the school gets, so don’t knock yourselves out.” The reason that joke had teeth was because it was based in reality, as the downward trajectory of academic achievement in Oklahoma public schools demonstrates. When you fund systems instead of students, the benefit never goes to the students. State tests, administered last spring for the first time in Oklahoma since 2019, showed that academic achievement plunged during the COVID shutdowns that went statewide in spring 2020 and continued in many districts the following school year. Previously, only about one-third of students performed at grade level in key subjects. Today, things are even worse. Read more » by Jamison Faught - October 11, 2021 at 06:16PM

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