The principal who wrestles an F school to a C in one year gets demotion and pay cut

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5. A simple reason...

"...shows us that winning at their game is not enough."

There's a simple reason for that--this is a game you're not supposed to win at. Intentional or not, the grading system in Florida is basically here to shut down public schools. Schools are teaching to the test and gaming the system? Keep moving the bar! That's the (tragically) comic aspect of this big data we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to collect: the results are largely irrelevant. At some point, someone--or group of people--are going to arbitrarily set the cut scores, thus undermining the "authority" that we place on these numbers. Case in point: Florida had to change their standards 2 years ago after the results came back looking "too bad."

And yes, that Superintendent is also emblematic of the real problems facing our schools: grossly incompetent/negligent "leaders" who only know how cower behind the rulebook.