February 18, 2021 The Idaho State Board of Education Wednesday adopted recommendations from their Accountability Oversight Committee that could change when Idaho public high school students take the Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), and also remove a college entrance exam as a high school graduation requirement. The schedule for when statewide assessments are administered, as well as the high school graduation requirements, are established in administrative code and must go through the negotiated process to be amended. The process will start in the spring and takes close to a year to complete. The change is based in part on feedback from school superintendents and research indicating that the high school junior year is a better time to measure student proficiency in relation to Idaho’s content standards. The ISAT is required to meet both state and federal accountability requirements.