City schools to act as pilot sites for new national standard tests
Students at 100 New York City schools will be among the first to take early versions of the new standardized tests being built with federal dollars.
The schools will test early versions of new 3-11 grade exams that a consortium of 26 states — New York included — is creating. The same schools will get extra funding this year to pilot the new common core standards in their classrooms.
Because New York is a “governing state” in the consortium, its education officials have already agreed to begin using the new tests by the 2014 school year. It also means that New York officials, including city Deputy
