EPIC IN THE NEWS
Editorial: Why doesn’t state want to know how students are doing?
DATE: January 30, 2021
For the third time in less than a year, the Michigan Department of Education is clamoring for a federal waiver from having to administer its annual standardized test. The challenges given COVID-19 are obvious, but we’d like to know: What is the department afraid of learning?
With learning disrupted for children across Michigan, and thousands still forced to participate in online learning, now is more vital than ever for school officials to track how kids are doing and where they are falling most behind.
As Gov. Gretchen Whitmer noted in her State of the State address Wednesday, the pandemic has made clear the “deep inequities in our education system.”
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