A long - standing
dispute over standardized testing of California's second graders has simmered back to the surface, as lawmakers consider legislation that would remove the assessment from the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, beginning July 2012.
Dr. King helped broker a fragile peace with the state's main teachers» union to begin those changes last year, but continuing
disputes, particularly
over the state's proposed use of
standardized tests to rate teachers, periodically disrupt it.