Sentences with phrase «maintain annual standardized testing»

The Business Roundtable, Council of Chief State School Officers, The Education Trust and the Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights are asking Congress to maintain annual standardized testing.

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WHEREAS, there are several significant aspects of ESEA that should be amended during the Act's reauthorization, including the elimination of sanctions and unintended consequences; granting states and local educational agencies greater local flexibility; the elimination of federally mandated, annual standardized testing; and maintaining provisions of ESEA that support its original intent of supporting students with the greatest needs; and

However, they also celebrated the preservation of annual standardized testing of all students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and they approved of maintaining the requirement that schools must test 95 % of all students and called it a discouragement to the opt - out movement.