New Mexico governor suspends student testing system
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is ordering the suspension and rapid replacement of the state’s current standardized academic exams for students.
The newly inaugurated Democratic governor on Thursday signed executive orders that suspend the current testing model and said a new assessment system should be in place by August with federal approval.
The orders hold major implications for teacher evaluations that were more closely linked to student test scores under preceding Republican Gov. Susana Martinez.
Lujan Grisham says it is still too soon to say whether standardized questionnaires will continue to play a role the assessments of student progress. She wants a “bottom-up” approach to developing new evaluations in consultation with teachers, parents and experts in education.
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