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Donna Chiera, current president of the American Federation of Teachers New Jersey and the Perth Amboy Federation, the union chapter representing school staff in that city, would change how the New Jersey ASK tests are given.
She says it’s wrong to have young children sitting at their desk for an hour or more for a single test period and doing that every day for an entire week.
If she could change something about New Jersey’s standardized tests for elementary and middle school students, foremost it would be to space the tests out and not jam them all into the window of a few days with a few long test sessions once a year.
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