Reply #8: That's not the way funding works. [View All]

[LWolf]

Not that "pushouts" haven't occurred to make test scores look better than they are; look to Rod Paige's tenure in TX first.

We aren't funded, at this time, based on our test scores. Although we may be headed that direction. My so-called governor is pushing to tie my job, and my pay, to my class' and school's test scores.

The pressure comes because when the scores don't make their goals for a couple of years in a row, schools are subject to takeover and disbanding. The state sends in so-called "experts" who are corporate shills to restructure and run whole districts according to their own agenda. It's happening in Oakland, CA right now.

For more info on NCLB, check out the education forum. You'll find a whole page full of threads discussing it in all its glory.