APS spends a million four, annually, on standards based assessment.

According to a Journal editorial; link sub req

"The whole point of No Child Left Behind is to ensure all
children are getting an adequate education to perform at
grade level. Integral to that is looking for patterns —
what works, what doesn't. And figuring out what to replicate
and what to eliminate should involve tracking how individual
classes perform.
So far, that doesn't happen in New Mexico. The state and the
test company don't sort the data that way. But Albuquerque
Public Schools is working on compiling test scores that track
classrooms for at least half of its schools by the end of this
coming school year."

It is interesting to note, and significant; that any promise
APS ever makes, seems to be to do something in the
distant future, as opposed to rather more immediately.
- but I digress.

The specificity that is missing, is the specificity that would
allow individuals to be held accountable for their individual
performance. Which is, as you know, an anathema in the
leadership of the APS.

Again, according to the editors;

New APS Superintendent Winston Brooks says tracking
whether students do better in morning or afternoon classes or
if smaller classes consistently outperform larger ones

"is information we ought to be looking at."

duh!

And those responsible for the fact that we are not now
looking at that data, will not be held accountable for their
failure.
They will in fact, never be identified.

Because that is just not the way the good ol' boys roll.

According to the editorial;

"... Rose-Ann McKernan, APS' director of research,
development and accountability says, looked at in the context
of multiple years it should help the district figure out how
great a role a teacher has played in any improvements or declines."

The problem, or from APS' perspective; the loophole,
is that every few years the tests are switched out
(re normed and rewritten) and the whole process begins again.

And again, statistically meaningful comparisons and conclusions,
results on which administrators and board members can be held accountable,

will be another few years off.

How convenient for those who would rather not be held
accountable for their competence as public servants.