Should Oregon Schools Stop Standardized Tests This Year? With so little time in school buildings, districts are looking to opt out and scale back. But at what cost? By Julia Silverman 4/13/2021 at 5:38pm Schools around Oregon are grappling with standardized testing in a pandemic school year. Next week, thousands of middle and high schoolers around the Portland metro area will return to school buildings for the first time since March of 2020, after Gov. Kate Brown ordered that every public school district in the state needed to provide some face-to-face time with teachers before the end of the school year. To celebrate, there will beâ¦â¦standardized tests?Â