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School districts will begin facing the state sanctions based on whether too few students take the exams next spring.
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The Illinois State Board of Education announced Monday the state will pay to give 11th graders SAT college entrance exams next spring, ditching the controversial state PARCC assessment for high school students.
Students in grades three through eight will begin taking computer - based exams next spring called Smarter Balanced assessments.
Students in grades three through eight will begin taking computer - based exams next spring that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards in reading, language arts and math.
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In the wake of Indiana's departure, representatives from PARCC said the consortium would still field - test its exams in 13 states and the District of Columbia next spring.
States have joined those two standardized testing groups to give exams on Common Core standards — West Virginia is set to give a Smarter Balanced version for the first time this spring, though the state will delay, for at least this school year and the next, labeling schools with its new A-F grading system, which is based in part on the test.
About 20,000 schools among the 22 states intending to use the Smarter Balanced exam next school year are piloting the test this spring, according to Jacqueline King, spokeswoman for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which designed the tests.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd - Bennett this week announced she did not want students in the nation's third - largest district to take the federally funded PARCC exam, which will debut next spring in 11 states, including Illinois.