New Haven schools blame COVID for their student's poor standardized testing scores. GOP challengers take aim at Senator Blumenthal during a primary debate, an unfinished audit puts West Haven “on review”, and progress in creating a new ethics panel in New York has been pretty slow moving.
Falling behind
![We know very little about what goes into standardized tests, who really designs them, and how they're scored.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9a5689e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2911x1841+0+0/resize/880x557!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2015%2F07%2F06%2Ftesting-istock_custom-9b43852df212c2f0f96fc490518ce1d441d817b2.jpg)
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