Pruitt Probing Failed Student Testing Company
Oklahoma attorney general opens inquiry into failed testing
by Randy Ellis
Attorney General Scott Pruitt is asking Oklahoma school superintendents for information he can use to hold CTB/McGraw-Hill financially accountable for online testing failures that disrupted end-of-instruction testing for thousands of students.
“My office is conducting an inquiry into the cause and effect, as well as potential damages resulting from the disruption,” Pruitt said in an Aug. 4 letter to superintendents. “This effort fundamentally is about ensuring accountability to the state, each school district and ultimately to the parents and children themselves.”
Joseph Siano, superintendent of Norman Public Schools, said he’s glad Pruitt has initiated the investigation and hopes he will consider expanding it to look at how standardized writing tests were scored.
“We don’t believe our writing tests were accurately scored … and I think there are similar concerns across the state,” Siano said.