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They’re even less so during a pandemic. Local school officials this week expressed frustration over the news that they’ll have to administer federally mandated, high-stakes tests during a year beset by sickness, quarantines, intermittent shifts to remote learning and potentially great learning loss. “Simply put, these narrowly-focused, standardized assessments are just not that important right now after everything our students and staff have already endured,” Ephrata Area School District Superintendent Brian Troop said. The U.S. Department of Education on Monday announced it would not be waiving the federal standardized test requirement as it did last year, despite social distancing, remote learning and student and staff quarantines still wreaking havoc on the nation’s schools due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the department issued guidance to states, allowing them to either extend the testing window to the summer or fall, shorten the tests or admi

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