Texas school districts seek testing waivers
There’s something almost poetic about this: In Texas, the state where the high-stakes standardized testing era began, a consortium of school districts is asking officials to grant them exemptions from both state and federal testing requirements.Twenty-three members of the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium have asked state officials for waivers from testing mandates, the Dallas Morning News reported, so they can have flexibility as they create a new accountability system.
The schools are seeking not only testing forgiveness, but permission to set their own school calendars and graduation requirements, among other things. (The consortium was created in 2011 to attract high-performing schools who could help design best practices that other