Cash-strapped New Hampshire will be giving fewer standardized tests this year:
State budget cutbacks mean New Hampshire students will take only two standardized assessment tests this year - reading and math.
Writing, science and social science tests will fall by the wayside for third-, sixth- and 10th-graders because there's not enough money to administer them.
Officials say they are doing the bare minimum to satisfy the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Lawmakers required the Department of Education to use federal No Child Left Behind money for this year's round of tests. When it fell short, tests were dropped.
Is the fact that New Hampshire changes the test from year to year part of the funding problem?
Posted by kswygert at April 26, 2004 03:44 PM