re: Personnel is Policy: To fix education, we have to fix the policies that protect teachers

I left K-12 administration and transitioned to higher for two reasons.

1. The IEP system, which is destroying K-12 schools from the inside.
2. The state testing scam, which is making a few people rich and doing nothing to help education.

Mississippi's state testing basically costs $37 per test. A student entering kindergarten takes about 112 tests before they graduate 12th grade. There are 500,000 students in Mississippi.

The average parent can't tell you what their kids' test scores look like and the average teacher can't read the results and make an improvement plan. The tests are being administered, but nothing is being done past that. Its something to check off a list.