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Teachers and community speakers press board on testing, public-comment rules and PECCA appointments
Summary
A teacher criticized new “snapshot” assessments as rebranded benchmarks that cost instructional time; the Hamilton County Education Association president outlined an upcoming PECCA (Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act) process; community members urged clearer public-comment and meeting scheduling policies.
Multiple speakers used the meeting's public-comment period to press the board on testing practices, public-comment access and the upcoming PECCA process.
Jeremy Barrett, a 25-year teacher at the Center for the Creative Arts, told the board that newly introduced “snapshots” amount to rebranded benchmarks that consume instructional time without adding useful information. “They don't cost much money, but they do cost something even more valuable and that's time,” Barrett said, adding that the snapshots required by central office are treated as mandatory in practice…
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