Georgia’s state school superintendent urged parents not to worry Thursday after the federal government said it plans to require standardized testing for students this school year despite disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
State Superintendent Richard Woods and Gov. Brian Kemp had asked the U.S. Department of Education in June to grant Georgia a suspension of all standardized testing in public schools for a second year. Such waivers were granted for all 50 states after the pandemic shuttered schools during the previous school year. And several states, like Georgia, had sought them again for 2020-21.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos all but rejected those requests in a letter to state school chiefs Thursday.
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