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New data show that Connecticut students are struggling to return to pre-pandemic performance levels, and absenteeism remains high.

New Haven schools blame COVID for their student's poor standardized testing scores.

New Haven Superintendent Iline Tracey blames COVID-19 for her district's struggle with standardized testing on reading and math.

The exams will be held in June for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students will only need a 50 or above to be potentially eligible for graduation.

School board member Edward Joyner said these students will no longer be sent home and marked as absent on testing days.

The U.S. Department of Education has denied New York’s request to cancel state standardized testing this year.The state Education Department made the…

A proposal to eliminate the Regents exam in New York has alarmed some social studies teachers on Long Island. They worry if the state cuts the…

Fewer Long Island students chose to opt out of New York’s standardized testing last spring, compared to two years ago. 43% of students boycotted state…

The state’s largest teachers union brought bagpipe players and a brass band to the Capitol to push for a bill to decouple teacher evaluations from the…

Teachers wouldn’t be evaluated based on their students’ standardized test scores any longer under a measure approved by the New York State Assembly. It’s…