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Vermont Joins Alternate Assessment System Consortium
VTDigger.com (01/17/13)Vermont has joined 13 other states in the Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) Alternative Assessment Consortium headed by the University of Kansas' Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation. The consortium -- which also includes Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin -- is creating a computer-based assessment for K-12 public school students with significant cognitive disabilities. These students, for whom general state assessments are not appropriate even with accommodations, make up 1 percent of the public school population. The DLM Consortium states plan to implement the alternative assessment in the 2014-15 school year. Vermont Education Secretary Armando Vilaseca says, "Collaboration amongst states will increase professional development opportunities for our educators. I am a believer that collaboration, the sharing of best practices and resources, will strengthen our education system." For more information about DLM -- which is funded by a five-year, $22 million U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs grant -- click here.
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