School Board votes on test score policy; 1st of 2 votes Oakridger Under a proposed new policy, students will only have their standardized test scores count for their grades if it helps them this school year. The policy passed Oak Ridge Board of Education on first reading Feb. 22. The School Board will need to approve it again on second reading for it to go ahead. Kelly Williams, Oak Ridge Schools' executive director of teaching and learning, explained at the board's Feb. 22 meeting the reasoning behind the proposed changes. “This is due to, as you know, our unstable testing environment over the last few years. We definitely in this unstable atmosphere want to give students the opportunity to raise their grades if they can do so on this assessment, but we do not want it to harm any students’ grades,” she said.