Escambia and Santa Rosa schools superintendents have joined others statewide to oppose using the Florida Standards Assessment to measure teacher performance and school grades.
Malcolm Thomas, Escambia County School District superintendent, as well as Tim Wyrosdick with the Santa Rosa School District, said they support accountability but described the 2015 FSA as a very hastily implemented assessment that was a “borrowed test out of Utah.”
In an editorial that will appear in Sunday’s Pensacola News Journal, the two superintendents will discuss their concerns about the FSA, which was administered for the first time this past spring. Results from the assessment will show how well third- through 10th-graders mastered Common Core standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and math.
