WikimediaBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's top school board is resisting efforts to waive penalties for schools whose students refuse to take Common Core standardized tests.
Instead, members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education are asking for a tally of the participation rate and will decide later whether the "opt-outs" are so widespread that they want to take some action.
A BESE committee unanimously agreed Thursday to get a report about testing participation after Common Core exams are taken March 16-20.
Some parents who oppose the multistate English and math standards are refusing to let their children take standardized tests aligned with Common Core.
School leaders are concerned about implications of the opt-outs because students who skip the test will produce zeroes for themselves and their schools in the calculation of performance scores.