Let's Talk SBAC Scores - Part Two
I watched Superintendent Randy Dorn's press conference last Monday where he reviewed the state's SBAC scores. I found his remarks somewhat scattered as if he were trying to remember all his talking points. (The contrast with his unflappable Deputy Superintendent of K-12 Education, Gil Mendoza,was interesting.) As I mentioned in Part One of this series on the 2014-2105 SBAC scores for Washington State, the big takeway is that people who support SBAC are very happy (or putting on that happy face) on the announcement of these scores. ( Ready Washington - a coalition group of the OSPI, Stand for Children, Washington STEM, Washington PTA, LEV, DFER etc., a lot of people except for teachers - could not tweet out the results hard enough.) The scores were in the low-high 50s (but naturally, breakdown differently across different groups). Highlights from the press conference: