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[quote=Anonymous][quote]MCPS did respond to the father's PIA request. Their response was that the test protocol is excepted from disclosure under the PIA.[/quote]

Yes and the father should have filed a grievance in circuit court to challenge this. This is the one area though where I think the state board should have stepped in and not punted it to the circuit court.

The father originally was requesting to see what tasks his son was asked to perform, what problems he was asked to solve, what his son's responses were, and what evaluation protocol was used to evaluate his response. He further asked for how this evaluation aligned with Common Core grade level requirements.

Everything except for the common core comparison is bulls eye in FERPA. He would have prevailed as the county or state can't hide the student work and rationale behind how this students was evaluated. FERPA doesn't require them to prove or disprove what they do has any value but they can't hide the data that is specific to the student. Upholding not requiring MCPS to show how this is aligned with common core is within FERPA but odd since MCPS constantly screams about how this is all Common Core.

IMO, the state should have required MCPS to provide the tasks that were given to the student, the student's response, and the criteria/protocal under which this student was measured. It isn't in the state's interest to have every school system trying to fight PIA requests and they'll end up getting their butts kicked once a parent willing to spend money on lawyers comes along. [/quote]

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