News Brief
Malloy: Feds Must Give Local School Districts Greater Flexibility
Middletown Press (CT) (07/10/13)Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said the state will seek authorization from the U.S. Department of Education to provide public school districts with new flexibility on statewide standardized tests. The flexibility would allow districts to either administer the Common Core-aligned Smarter Balanced assessment rather than the state's CMT or CAPT assessments or not use state test data in educator evaluations for the 2013-14 school year. Pryor said, "In the upcoming school year, as districts begin transitioning to new student assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards, they will be in need of new flexibility in the way they implement their educator evaluation system. Allowing districts this flexibility will enable us to support teachers as they shift their instruction and prepare their students for the Common Core. We're pleased that providing such flexibility will not require changes to the rollout schedule for the evaluation system, which will remain on track and on timeline."
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