The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted 4-3 Tuesday on a resolution that would allow 10 schools to opt out of standardized tests and test preparation beginning in the 2025-26 school year.
LAUSD President Jackie Goldberg read during the Tuesday morning board meeting that the resolution stipulates that once the schools “develop and pilot innovative, authentic, rigorous and relevant” assessments, the schools “will be excused from any standardized testing with the exception of state and federally mandated assessments.”
Goldberg, who “hoped” for the resolution to be adopted before leaving her post as president, said that the measure would “begin to change how we look at student assessment.” She said that she is “not against assessment.”
However, the official with 18 years experience in teaching explained what she called the “testing industry,” which spends billions of dollars every year to “continuously find ways to continue to increase by a few points, here and there, scores on standardized tests.”
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