He said 90 percent of La Feria's low-income students didn't pass the English Language 1 test and that virtually none of the district's students are on track to pass the higher STAAR standards that will be phased in through 2016.
Dietz interjected, suggesting Texas previously had been content with mediocre student performance.
"Maybe through our testing and accountability, we have been kind of pushing people through the education factory," Dietz said. "Maybe this -- with the increased rigor -- is an attempt to reach reality."
The judge also noted that students are not only competing against others in the United States, but also against their counterparts from "South Korea, France, Holland, Germany, from Russia, Latvia, trying to be bigger, better, faster, stronger, smarter than anybody else."
Cortez responded: "We don't have a problem getting kids to that level. We just need the resources to be able to do it."
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