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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Tell Us What You Really Think, Dr. P
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Most school officials, especially superintendents, tread carefully when answering media questions, trying to give a general answer that sounds upbeat but reveals little about their opinion on a controversial issue.
Cherokee County Superintendent Frank Petruzielo is not such an official.
He recently shared his take on a relaxing of some criteria involving No Child Left Behind, allowing, among other things, special education test results to be scored on a curve for this year only.
In a story by my colleague Paul Donsky, Petruzielo said he appreciated the adjustments. But he took issue with the No Child Left Behind Act, blasting it for giving the public a false measure of schools.
“All of this gerry-rigging that is occurring, in my view, is simply an attempt to put off the inevitable —- which is a total loss of confidence in using this as a measure for evaluating the quality of American education,” he said. “To really look at schools and evaluate them, you have to look at so much more than [No child]requires you to look at.”
Do you agree or disagree that NCLB gives the public a false measure of schools?
