Education Week: State Scraps Science Test Requirement for Students

State Scraps Science Test Requirement for Students

Boise, Idaho

Idaho is scrapping a rule that would have required high school students to pass standardized tests in science before they graduate, starting with the class of 2013.

Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna said science classes vary from district to district and students are only tested twice — in the 5th- and 7th-grades — before they are tested by the state in the 10th grade.

"When you only test them in 5th and 7th grade, that's not enough," Luna said Thursday. "We have no way of identifying who needs...

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