Ohio Politics Now: Amid test concerns, state to allow some schools to create their own
The tests linked to Common Core standards have been under fire from educators and parents who are concerned with glitches and the amount of time it takes to prepare for and take the tests.
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The state is starting a pilot program to allow 15 schools and districts to develop their own standardized testingamid complaints that the current system isn’t working, Dispatch reporter Catherine Candisky writes. “The Innovative Learning Pilot is the latest effort by state officials to alter, scale back or dump tests that cost about $50 million to develop and administer, and first given to students last month.”
The tests linked to Common Core standards have been under fire from educators and parents who are concerned with glitches and the amount of time it takes to prepare for and take the tests.
The state already has a 28-person committee looking at the tests while state schools Superintendent Richard Ross has recommended a decrease in the number of hours testing.Ohio Politics Now: Amid test concerns, state to allow some schools to create their own | The Columbus Dispatch: