With the spring test season at hand, it is unlikely that many schools will be ready to administer the new PARCC to the students. Yesterday the CPS brass was not able to identify the schools that will be giving the IL PARCC test to the students.
There are initial plans, unknown as of this writing, to limit giving the test to no more than 10% of the schools in the CPS system. What took place yesterday at CPS headquarters was the fact that the powers that be did not indicate which schools would be giving the exam. In fact, they were silent on the issue.
What that means is that 100% of the schools don't know if they will be the chosen ones. It also means that everyone is prepping for the PARCC in lots of ways with this unknown. Students and teachers are preparing for the actual exam while administrators and staff have to get locations and a slew of other logistics ready so that when the day arrives for the testing, they can pull it off. These are just some of the concerns.
Aside from all of this, the state has threatened the district that Illinois will lose up to $1 billion in federal money for poor children if enough Illinois schoolchildren don't take the PARCC test.
What an absolute bunch of nonsense!!!!
Dick
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