Reasons not to vote Labour #41 - the SATs fiasco
Posted by Christie Malry on April 30, 2010 at 11:56 am
In 2008, the companies who had been awarded the contracts to administer SATs, the standardised aptitude tests required for all schools, messed it up. They failed to mark them properly, they were late and there were lots of administrative howlers.
The man who awarded this contract was Ed Balls. He refused to apologise for the mess, and then went on to smear Ken Boston, a civil servant in his department.
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