“Is it any wonder that educators are leaving the profession when, in a pandemic, USED insists that Michigan use time, which should be dedicated to children’s social emotional and academic growth, to test a portion of its students to generate data that will inform precisely nothing about our children’s needs that we won’t already know more substantially and quickly with benchmark assessments this year," Rice said in the release.
Michigan denied standardized testing waiver for this year
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Michigan can't safely and uniformly administer a fair standardized test, state Superintendent Michael Rice said in the request.
Michigan asks for a waiver of standardized testing for 2021
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