An Oklahoma lawmaker has filed legislation to replace time-consuming end-of-instruction testing in public schools.
The bill by Rep. David Perryman of Chickasha would repeal the requirement that Oklahoma secondary-school students take an end-of-instruction exam to demonstrate their knowledge of academic subjects in order to graduate from a public high school. Instead, students would take the nationally accepted American College Test to demonstrate their proficiency.
Perryman says end-of-instruction testing disrupts secondary education for three or four weeks each spring. He says there are better ways to measure a student's familiarity with a subject.
The bill provides that if a student is unable to achieve a minimum mandated score on the ACT test, then a longstanding testing accommodations policy could be invoked.
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