Bill lets special-ed students opt out

[Squinch]

1. If this has measures in it to divorce teacher evaluations and school funding from the numbers

of children who take the test, this would be a very, very, very good thing.

Right now, school funding is cut if too many children opt out of the test, and teachers are judged partly on the total number of their students who increase grades in the test. So those provisions would need to be included.

Next step: on the other end of the spectrum, don't make gifted children sit through test prep for months out of the year when they could be moving ahead. (All of which boils down to: how about we let teachers teach the kids at their level, rather than at the level that some MBA who has never been in a classroom thinks they should be?)