sic(k) willie, everyone knows you are a fraud.

Other states have assessment tests which are handled in far less time, and with much lower cost. Why not look at what others are doing?

Academic tests, such as the GRE, can be scored on the spot (mine was). WorkKeys, which is used to assess skills of employees and potential employees (developed since your garden-variety high school diploma does a piss-poor job of certifying any level of ability or knowledge), takes days.

But the PACT test takes months? As always, when there’s a problem that nobody can seem to fix, be it in government or the private sector, just follow the money and you’ll find the real problem.

Or as Toucan Sam used to say “just follow your nose, it always knows”.

Every parent and taxpayer has a right to know what kind of results we’re getting from the resources which are taken (via taxes) from each South Carolina taxpayer. At the rate we’re going, we could take half the education budget, throw a big kegger at the State Fairground, with the FITS girls as strippers, and I doubt our test scores would drop very much.

Indeed, only one group really stands to gain if the necessary updates to 10 year old legislation are not made. That is the choice crowd and those who pay their operatives. If the reform happens, and schools improve, there goes the central argument of the choice crowd.

So who really wants what?

PS–there are legal reasons Rex can not do what you assert he can. He needs approval from the state board and from the oversight board. And, we could have public school choice right now in place had you guys learned how to tell Howie to compromise and get what he could when he could.