States Must Test Student Learning This Spring, Biden Administration Says
Annual state testing was canceled last year because of the pandemic. Many states want to skip it again, but the Education Department says no.
The U.S. Education Department says states must resume the annual testing of students that was suspended a year ago amid the pandemic.
For the past two decades, federal law has required schools to test students once each year in math and reading, in grades three through eight and once in high school. And they are required to publicly report these standardized test results, broken out by racial and ethnic
