Commissioner's Speech

Last week I was in Austin attending the Texas Association of School Administrator's Mid-winter Conference. While there I heard a speech given by the Commissioner for Education and head of the Texas Education Agency, Robert Scott. Mr. Scott gave a very frank speech during which he stated that he felt the assessment and accountability system in Texas has become a perversion of what it was intended to be, and he felt that we would soon see a change in the way that Texas tests students. This would be great news for teachers and students in Texas. We don't want to stop holding our schools accountable, but we don't need to over test students either. The future should be interesting.