Aside from selling more computers (Chromebooks) software and
SBAC test analysis ($ 22 - $ 27 per student), new CCSS aligned textbooks, workshops for educators etc. the money to be made lies in turning over public schools to charter schools, which use public funds, in many cases to turn a profit.
Not exact matches
Here in Connecticut Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education has pontificated that there were very few technical problems with the Common Core
SBAC test in Connecticut, although no independent
analysis of the claim has been completed and even the claim that there were «few problems» is suspect considering that in at least two Connecticut School Districts students were given the wrong
test and the community's entire results had to be thrown out.
Our
analysis of school - level
test results indicates that as the share of economically disadvantaged students in a school increases, the share of those students scoring at or above the level of the standard falls on both the CST and the
SBAC.
Jumping into the mix is the Associated Administrators of the Los Angeles (AALA), which in its recent newsletter criticized the CCSA
analysis, saying the «wins» of charters on the
tests are diminished «when one considers that the enrollment of traditional schools includes 6 % more English learners, who presumably would be at a disadvantage on the
SBAC English language arts assessment (though they were apparently not at the same disadvantage on the
SBAC math assessment).