The Tests Don't Tell You Anything

"When the trend is across the board, significantly down, to say that that doesn't tell you anything just seems absurd," he says. "What it's telling us is the system as a whole fell short ... and what do you do? Switch from a system focus and put it on an individual student focus." The schools have gotten around $190 billion to deal with these problems, but 90 plus percent of those funds still haven't been spent, Lomax says.