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The state Education Department is taking steps to cancel third- through eighth-grade testing this spring.
The department has drafted requests for waivers to the U.S. Department of Education. The first waiver request seeks to waive state testing requirements at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. The waiver would also allow the state Education Department to administer the state English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSELSAT) only to those English Language Learners who are able to attend school in person at least some days of the week.
The second waiver request seeks to eliminate the requirement to assign a Level 1 to 4 to each accountability subgroup for each indicator for which a school or district is accountable or identify schools for improvement in fall 2021 based on 2020-21 school year results. Separate from the waiver, the state Education Department will seek an amendment to New York’s approved ESSA plan that would allow certain schools that are current
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New York State United Teachers sent the request to the State Education Department for the same waiver that was granted last year citing the continued challenges students and educators are facing during the pandemic that disrupt the normal education process.
The Union says “without standardized instructional modes, there should not be a standardized test at the end of the year.” NYSUT adds teachers are trying to also address social emotional needs of students caused by not only the pandemic but last year’s social unrest. The Union says it doesn’t expect those factors to change in the near future, especially given the recent surge in cases and the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus.
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looking to cancel Regents and other standardized exams again this year due to the Coronavirus.
Back in November of 2020, Interim State Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa announced the decision that all January 2021 high school Regents exams have been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In a new letter sent to the education department, the union has requested a federal waiver of grade 3-8 and high school testing requirements for this year.
The union feels without standardized instruction there shouldn t be standardized testing:
“Without standardized instructional modes there should not be a standardized test at the end of the year,” the union wrote in the letter. “On top of this, teachers are trying to address the social emotional needs of students caused by the pandemic and racial unrest caused by the death of George Floyd. Given the recent surge, it is unlikely that will change much for the r