Johnny Isakson actually said...

"I've always felt that the teacher was best--and the teacher and the parent and the IEP were best to decide what kind of assessment the child ought to have."

"One thing I learned as State board chairman in Georgia is that if your testing is not aligned with your curriculum, you're never going to get good data."

"Assessment was very important, disaggregation was more important, and focusing on the individual student was most important, and No Child Left Behind did that."

"You know, if this works, we're going to be in trouble in 6 years, because it'll be impossible for schools to maintain AYP because it's going to get harder and harder and harder to do."