Jeb to get Tom Luce from TX to review FCAT test......he is a lawyer?

[madfloridian]

I just did some reseach because I knew I had heard the name. His Just for the Kids is apparently taking over school systems all over the country. He is highly connected to the Bush family. How does a lawyer know so much about schools?
I can see our paper is already questioning this decision by Jeb. What I did not know is that apparently they are already working here in Florida....see last article.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-ffcat16aug16,1,2763075.story?coll=sfla-news-florida
Texas company to evaluate Florida schools

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-11-09/pols_capitol.html
Would you like to swing on a star?
Corporation with deep pockets tests every one but themselves.

Just happened on this, don't have a clue about it.
http://www.texasjudges.net/perjury.htm
Godbey perjury

Looks like Luce might already be taking hold in Florida schools. This
article is from 2002. Are they trying to demographically group the schools
even now?
From a Google cache page, shortened link.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B56C51D95
Education analysis golden

By Billie Stanton Denver Post Columnist

March 03, 2002

So as schools in 16 Colorado districts tender their state test results and
other data to that Texas-based nonprofit group, they do so with the
expectation that they ultimately can improve students' learning.

That's never an easy process, of course. But with Just For The Kids, it
becomes a whole lot easier.

The program, launched by businessman Tom Luce in Texas in 1995, also is
underway now in Florida, Arkansas, Minnesota, California, Washington state
and even Tennessee, where William Sanders gained fame for his research on
analyzing student data.

But Tennessee officials know that the Sanders model and Just For The Kids
are complementary approaches.

Both crunch student data. While Sanders' method identifies effective and
ineffective teachers, the Texas model finds the most productive schools and
the practices yielding strong student achievement.

Just For The Kids does this by grouping schools according to demographics.

Those with high student mobility, poverty and a plethora of English language
learners, for example, might be lumped together.

Any of those schools with unusually high achievement then will be sifted out
for further review.

With deep analysis of a winning school's curriculum, mission,
student-teacher ratio, teacher experience and education, along with other
factors, Just For The Kids tries to determine what makes a school overcome
the odds to achieve excellence....."END SNIP

I had no idea all this was going on here already.

I would like to know more about this Tom Luce. It is hard to find anything but good stuff about him and the Bushes.