INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz
opposes legislation pushed by GOP lawmakers that would rescore the 2015
ISTEP after problems were revealed with the administration of the test.
Ritz spokesman
Daniel Altman said Tuesday that there's no evidence of problems with the
actual scoring of the exams in which students performed poorly as a
result of difficult new standards.
The standards
were hastily put in place after Republican lawmakers pulled Indiana from
national Common Core standards in 2014.
Altman also
sought to undercut Republican criticisms of the Department of
Education's administration of the test. He says Ritz worked proactively
with the test vendor as glitches arose.
House Education
Chairman Bob Behning wants ISTEP rescored because he says parents need
to be confident in the test's legitimacy.
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