The manipulation of data or the refusal by some states and districts to report it makes it hard to get an accurate picture of what's going on in public schools, Morgan Polikoff, an education professor at USC Rossier who led the CRPE research, tells Axios. "We've been doing testing and accountability for like two decades, and the fact that you still have so much data that's just missing, or even if it's there, you have to have a PhD in education policy, is problematic."
The accountability movement isn't dead, but it's on life support, says Dale Chu, a senior visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, referencing the challenges of maintaining effective accountability systems in the current educational landscape.
The report also comes a day after the Biden administration called on governors and state education leaders to create statewide systems for chronic absenteeism-related data, highlighting the urgent need for better data management in public education.
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