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EDUCATION PANEL'S REPORT QUESTIONED
A RECENT education task force report provides a detailed critique of New Jersey’s current educational accountability system. The Governor’s Education Transformation Task Force proposes that QSAC (the Quality Single Accountability Continuum) be replaced by a new system that its report outlines broadly. But some task force proposals raise concerns. Indeed, they threaten to return us to the problems that led to QSAC in the first place. As co-authors of studies commissioned by the state Department of Education about accountability and QSAC in 2002 and 2006, this is a matter of special interest to us. In our 2006 study of the Department’s piloting of QSAC, we expressed concern about key elements of that accountability law and its implementation, and recommended a number of changes. Read More...
NEW JERSEY STUDENTS AGAIN FACE NO DIPLOMAS IF AHSA TEST NOT PASSED
Once again, thousands of New Jersey students could be in danger of not graduating unless they pass the state's alternative exit exam in coming weeks. The state Education Department declined to estimate how many are in jeopardy of not graduating this year, because the test-taking and appeals are continuing, said spokeswoman Allison Kobus. She said a total graduation rate will not be available until at least September… Stan Karp, Director of the law center's Secondary Reform Project, faulted the state for not making information available sooner this year. "The lesson they've learned from last year is to sit on information until it's too late to do anything about it," he said. Karp also the state was not doing enough to address problems in the state's high schools. "We haven't seen any credible secondary reform effort," he said. "Obviously we're still having problems preparing students to graduate." Read More...
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