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Once again Connecticut elected officials are wrong to mandate the SAT for all 11th graders - Wait What?

Once again Connecticut elected officials are wrong to mandate the SAT for all 11th graders - Wait What?:

Once again Connecticut elected officials are wrong to mandate the SAT for all 11th graders






As the 2015 Session of the Connecticut General Assembly came careening to a close last spring, legislators overwhelmingly approved a bill that replaced the mandate that 11thgraders take the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Test (SBAC) with a new requirement that all high school juniors take the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory College Board SAT test.
Without remotely understanding the ramifications of their action, legislators and Governor Dannel Malloy congratulated themselves for a job well done.
The Connecticut Education Association heaped praise on the very elected officials who had undermined public education in Connecticut, taking credit for the move to the SAT and Once again Connecticut elected officials are wrong to mandate the SAT for all 11th graders - Wait What?:

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