Calif. DistrictsFighting State Testing Orders
A battle of wills is pitting California districts against state policymakers, with the districts protesting a new required basic-skills test that they argue will be a waste of time and money for more than 1 million of the 4.25 million students to be tested statewide.
While district leaders take issue with many aspects of the state-financed testing program, a central complaint focuses on the mandate that all students, even those with little or no understanding of English, must take the new test in English. About a fourth of students statewide are not proficient in that language.
The school board in the Los Angeles district, the state's largest, plans to head into court soon to ask for relief from giving the test to the limited-English-proficient students least...
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