States will not be allowed to cancel standardized testing for the 2020-21 school year, the Biden administration said Feb. 22. Instead, they will be permitted to delay the tests until the summer or fall.
AFT President Randi Weingarten was among those who wanted the tests canceled.
“As the educators in the classroom, we have always known that standardized tests are not the best way to measure a child’s development, nor do they particularly help kids or inform best practices for teaching and learning,” she said in a statement. “That is especially true in these unprecedented times, when students and teachers alike are remaking the school experience in the most unlikely of circumstances.”
Associated Press writer Collin Binkley has more.
