Lori Dira: Standardized testing should be suspended this year
TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently announced that it would allow individual school districts to decide whether to administer PSSA and Keystone Exams this spring, as would be typical, or to postpone these tests until the fall. While the Biden administration is imploring schools to stick with the usual plan of spring standardized testing, we commend the Department for this flexibility. Now it is time for citizens and parents to ask their local school districts to...