The Keeper of the Testing Papers (LAUSD Waste, cont’d.)

Teachers are cut. Class sizes go up. Summer school goes away.

But somewhere, perhaps on a campus near you, sits a person paid to watch tests. I’m not sure which tests: CELDTS go to Sacramento, as do CSTs (I think). Maybe it’s the forms and affidavits teachers sign before administering the tests? Or the forms and affidavits the administrators sign saying the teachers signed the forms and affidavits they were supposed to sign? Or the forms and affidavits the survey coordinators sign saying the administrators signed the forms and affidavits they were supposed to sign saying that the teachers signed where they were supposed to sign? (See Exhibit A below)

Exhibit A

In any event there are tests or some sorts of testing papers and these pieces of paper apparently need watching. It’s positively medieval, but true.

A source whose child attends a charter school trying to expand into the campus of one of the testing centers told me about this situation. The charter school noticed a room that was never used, so naturally, needing more classroom space, they asked about THAT ROOM.

No, no, no, they were told. THAT ROOM holds THE TESTING PAPERS.

Couldn’t the testing papers be moved into a storage room or into one of the decomissioned portable classrooms that the district is phasing out after having spent millions buying them and then billions replacing them with brick and mortar classrooms that will soon sit empty since enrollment is declining?

No, no, no, they were told. There’s a person who’s in there WATCHING THE TESTING PAPERS.

I investigated a little, and found out that (OF COURSE!) there isn’t just one such center. It’s LAUSD after all. Everything has to be done in multiples.

Here is a list of all the testing centers in the district.

I wonder if they all have keepers. And how much those keepers cost. And how many teachers we could buy with all that money. Call your board member and ask them!

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