How are those results used? How many principals do you know who have been promoted based on improvements in those tests? Re-assigned when they failed to improve/maintain?
That happens all the time. I personally know principals in my area who were bumped up to administrative positions due to their performance.
I just had a discussion yesterday with a school administrator at my church about how far fewer social studies teaching jobs are open partly because there are no state standardized tests for social studies so those teachers don't get forced out due to test results.
You're arguing in favor of policies and practices that are pretty common and have been in place for decades in some places and part of national policy for over a decade. That's the status quo.
Charters schools are far from a universal solution by the way.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/01/12/charter-failure.html
[h=1]Columbus has 17 charter school failures in one year[/h] [h=2]Schools closing at alarming rate, costing taxpayers and disrupting the lives of hundreds of students[/h]
At the beginning of 2013, one long-struggling charter school closed. Over the summer, five more did. And in the fall, 11 more Columbus charters closed their doors, most of them brand new.
That’s 17 charter schools in Columbus closed in one year, which records show is unprecedented.
“It shows the power of a couple of players with standards that are not up to par really affecting an overall market,” said Chad Aldis, a vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which sponsors 10 charter schools in Ohio, some in Columbus.
Nine of the 17 schools that closed in 2013 lasted only a few months this past fall. When they closed, more than 250 students had to find new schools. The state spent more than $1.6 million in taxpayer money to keep the nine schools open only from August through October or November.
But while 2013 was unusual, closings are not rare. A
Dispatch analysis of state data found that 29 percent of Ohio’s charter schools have shut, dating to 1997 when the publicly funded but often privately run schools became legal in Ohio. Nearly 400 currently are operating, about 75 of them in Columbus.
