On the same day that State School Superintendent Kathy Cox suggested to Georgia school systems that they delay the start of the next school year to give officials more time to clean up the mess from the last one, House Democrats slammed her for the recent CRCT failures.  In a call for accountability, House Democratic Leader DuBose Porter, who has been rumored as a potential 2010 candidate for Governor asks Cox what she knew and "when did she know it?"

Democrats and many education officials allege that Cox and others knew the currently taught curriculum was not adequate to pass the new test based on a small sample of students who were given the exam last year.  Instead of redesigning the test, or the curriculum that was taught, they continued to recommend out-of-date coursework that guaranteed even many honor students would fail.  As part of their press release, the House members called on Gov. Sonny Perdue to work with already cash strapped school systems who must  now accomodate a record-breaking number of summer students who need to be re-tutored and tested in order to advance to the next grade by August.