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Mark Bartlett was not in his class at Irish Elementary School on Friday morning.
Instead, Bartlett joined a number of other educators and school administrators who testified virtually in front of the Colorado House Committee on Education in favor of a bill that would require the Colorado Department of Education to request a federal waiver to suspend portions of Colorado Measures of Academic Success, or CMAS, testing for the year.
Mark Bartlett was not in his class at Irish Elementary School on Friday morning.
Instead, Bartlett joined a number of other educators and school administrators who testified virtually in front of the Colorado House Committee on Education in favor of a bill that would require the Colorado Department of Education to request a federal waiver to suspend portions of Colorado Measures of Academic Success, or CMAS, testing for the year. After nearly a year of unconventional education, we re playing catch-up to develop these essential skills, said Bartlett, who teaches fourth grade and physical education and emphasized the importance of skills like teamwork and communication that are not measured in a standardized test.
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