I benefit from and am vested in the success of this company and industry, but can see a need to end waste and increase efficiency, a shift away from public education back toward the private sector. Why would anyone seek to dismiss that which benefits them? Reason:
“There's no other state in the country that comes even close to this level of punitive requirement on students," her mother, Dineen Majcher, explains.
The Austin mother is a member of TAMSA, or Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment.
The group believes the state puts an unnecessary emphasis on standardized testing and pays Pearson, the British company hired to administer the tests, too much money.
According to state records, the Defenders found Texans spend more money on standardized testing than any other state.
The state's contract with Pearson requires Texas to pay the company $95 million this year. By 2015, tax payers will have paid the company $1.1 billion.
Pearson does not set policy in Texas. It won its contract after multiple companies submitted bids about 13 years ago.
Consider that the gross waste of the education industry is funded through theft, and that there is little economic incentive for efficiency as a result.
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