Birmingham, AL – Alabama's elementary and middle school students in grades three through eight will have their high-stakes testing reduced to one week instead of two beginning next school year.
School systems will test students in reading and math using the 10th edition Stanford Achievement Test and the Alabama Reading and Math Test during the April testing period.
Deputy State Superintendent Tommy Bice said Monday other subjects of the SAT-10 - language, science and social science - will be dropped.
Bice said the only two pieces of the SAT-10 that were needed were reading and math to augment the Alabama Reading and Math Test.
State Superintendent Joe Morton said the board will discuss other changes to the assessments at its next work session June 25.
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