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D.C. drags feet on release of previously available test data

dcogcadmin | January 4, 2012

After last year's release of the right-to-wrong erasures on the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System tests triggered doubt as to their credibility, reporters asked for the 2011 data under D.C. FOIA. Assuming that information would be released as the 2010 data were, reporters were surprised to see a Dec. 23 announcement that D.C. was looking to hire a private consultant to study the results to ensure their validity. This would likely set release back by months, if not years, writes Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews. The 2010 data, which also prompted a D.C.

After last year's release of the right-to-wrong erasures on the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System tests triggered doubt as to their credibility, reporters asked for the 2011 data under D.C. FOIA. Assuming that information would be released as the 2010 data were, reporters were surprised to see a Dec. 23 announcement that D.C. was looking to hire a private consultant to study the results to ensure their validity. This would likely set release back by months, if not years, writes Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews. The 2010 data, which also prompted a D.C. inspector general investigation, contributed to a March 2011 USA Today story spotlighting the issue in D.C.