By George Scott
Project Director, Academic Equity Advocates
You will need to access the first link immediately below the opening paragraphs to access the pdf of Part 4 of this series. In Part 4, the constitutional, judicial, and administrative foundations of student testing and accountability trace back to the Texas Legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 7 in 1993. Actual, it traces back to a federal court decision in the early 1970’s ordering the Texas Education Agency to compensate minority group children for past racial and ethnic isolation.
In its initial TAAS testing era, the TEA vigorously defended the academic integrity of its testing program. It claims dramatic success in closing academic achieving gaps as mandates by its own Senate Bill 7. Part 4 deals with the start the dismantling of the academic integrity of the system at its earliest stages for which our thesis is the deception continues through today.
You will need to access the link immediately below this sentence to access the pdf of Part 4 of this series.
PART 4: TAAS to STAAR and Texas’ Systemic Academic Deception
Here are some links to support documents from our External Reports page that are meaningful to this Part 4 presentation.
Exhibit – Foundational Principles of Testing/Accountability Shown