Post by Logan on Jun 13, 2016 21:07:43 GMT -6
TEA considering penalties for embattled state testing company
The state’s education agency will decide this summer on any penalties against the company that bungled this year’s administration of the Texas standardized tests — including fines and scrapping the multimillion-dollar contract.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath told the New Jersey-based testing vendor Educational Testing Service in March that if the company hadn’t fixed a litany of issues by May, he would consider levying financial penalties and reconsider the state’s $280 million contract — $11.9 million of which has already been paid.
The deadline has come and gone, and problems with how the company has administered the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, have continued.
On Friday, the Texas Education Agency learned that ETS had missed the deadline to give some school districts retest scores for fifth- and eighth-graders. School officials need that information to determine which students must attend summer school.
Read more: www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/tea-considering-penalties-for-embattled-state-test/nrfsx/
The state’s education agency will decide this summer on any penalties against the company that bungled this year’s administration of the Texas standardized tests — including fines and scrapping the multimillion-dollar contract.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath told the New Jersey-based testing vendor Educational Testing Service in March that if the company hadn’t fixed a litany of issues by May, he would consider levying financial penalties and reconsider the state’s $280 million contract — $11.9 million of which has already been paid.
The deadline has come and gone, and problems with how the company has administered the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, have continued.
On Friday, the Texas Education Agency learned that ETS had missed the deadline to give some school districts retest scores for fifth- and eighth-graders. School officials need that information to determine which students must attend summer school.
Read more: www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/tea-considering-penalties-for-embattled-state-test/nrfsx/