ryan walters

[oks10]

He didn't mean "we're ending standardized testing". He meant "we're ending THIS woke liberal America hating indicating standardized test". Schools are to pick from a yet to be created list of approved companies to get tests from. Any bets what type of companies are going to be on that RW hand selected list?... FFS...

https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-education/waste-of-taxpayer-money-concerns-surround-osde-new-assessment-plan/

 

[Pokey]

He didn't mean "we're ending standardized testing". He meant "we're ending THIS woke liberal America hating indicating standardized test". Schools are to pick from a yet to be created list of approved companies to get tests from. Any bets what type of companies are going to be on that RW hand selected list?... FFS...

https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-education/waste-of-taxpayer-money-concerns-surround-osde-new-assessment-plan/

History of the Church of England? Even though we repelled this church state in our fight for freedom. These rabid dogs want one religious sect to benefit them only, and the rest of you are delusional, and wrong if you don’t like their desire to have it their own selfish unAmerican way. What’s next demanding we wear redcoats? Before they change everything, what Christian sect wins. Tell us please, will it be evangelical Southern Baptist or Evangelical Catholics that rule the future. Those two powers should produce honest public discussions about just what religious sect they want to force us to worship, and what form it will take. The billions of nonbelievers and nonChristians religions must be heretics . With all the deportations who are predominantly Catholic, seems the white supremacist and Southern Baptist seem to be on the side that’s currently winning.

 

[CowboyJD]

He didn't mean "we're ending standardized testing". He meant "we're ending THIS woke liberal America hating indicating standardized test". Schools are to pick from a yet to be created list of approved companies to get tests from. Any bets what type of companies are going to be on that RW hand selected list?... FFS...

https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-education/waste-of-taxpayer-money-concerns-surround-osde-new-assessment-plan/

This is an example of the kleptocracy of authoritarian leaders.

He's setting up a system where the State will pay his favored and approved vendors to do something the State is already doing. More than likely at a higher cost and lesser efficiency. At the point different vendors are providing different tests, it won't be standardized.

 

[oks10]

This is an example of the kleptocracy of authoritarian leaders.

He's setting up a system where the State will pay his favored and approved vendors to do something the State is already doing. More than likely at a higher cost and lesser efficiency. At the point different vendors are providing different tests, it won't be standardized.

I just want to know what's wrong with the benchmark testing that schools are already doing? Why do we need an all-important test at the almost-end of the year? Measure the students growth throughout the year and advance them if they're progressing like they should. Teachers know their students skills and limits better than a single test evaluation at the end of the year.

 

[andylicious]

I just want to know what's wrong with the benchmark testing that schools are already doing? Why do we need an all-important test at the almost-end of the year? Measure the students growth throughout the year and advance them if they're progressing like they should. Teachers know their students skills and limits better than a single test evaluation at the end of the year.

The benchmark testing idea isn’t a terrible idea, but you still need the summation test. You need that final test because it’s required by law. The law requiring standardized testing has been effect since the 1970’s then further enshrined in law through the 1990’s reform movements followed by No Child Left Behind.

 

[andylicious]

This is an example of the kleptocracy of authoritarian leaders.

He's setting up a system where the State will pay his favored and approved vendors to do something the State is already doing. More than likely at a higher cost and lesser efficiency. At the point different vendors are providing different tests, it won't be standardized.

Oklahoma’s test bank has cost us a lot of money to develop

 

[Polds4OSU]

From The Oklahoma Gaslight

Ryan Walters Can’t Keep a Lawyer: Another Legal Team Walks Away

Do you know a good lawyer? Ryan Walters needs one. One by one, the attorneys hired to defend Walters have walked away.

On August 12, 2025, the Tulsa firm Norman Wohlgemuth withdrew as general counsel to the State Board of Education. Just two months earlier, on June 10, 2025, Walters’s general counsel Michael Beason submitted his resignation and officially left on June 30. Even before that, four in-house attorneys quit.

Why have they all left? Walters’s leadership has been described as unstable and incompetent. Staff talk about an agency at war with itself, a place where lawyers see only risk and no strategy. Few want to be the last one standing beside him.

Walters has been named in at least sixteen state and federal lawsuits. Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on litigation that has nothing to do with students, classrooms, or education.

So if you know of a lawyer you don’t mind never speaking to again please, pass the contact info along to Walters, he needs it.

Law firm representing Oklahoma State Board of Education is withdrawing from that role

It is the second time in less than a year that the Oklahoma State Board of Education is looking for a new attorney.

www.yahoo.com

 

[oks10]

The benchmark testing idea isn’t a terrible idea, but you still need the summation test. You need that final test because it’s required by law. The law requiring standardized testing has been effect since the 1970’s then further enshrined in law through the 1990’s reform movements followed by No Child Left Behind.

Yeah, there's obviously the legality issue. I was only speaking to what gives us the most accurate data. Laws aside.

 

[andylicious]

The mo

Yeah, there's obviously the legality issue. I was only speaking to what gives us the most accurate data. Laws aside.

The most accurate data is a combination. The summative test should mimic the benchmarks. The testing methods should be identical with each other and with similar vocabulary. That’s where most testing programs diverge from consistency