Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 484 on Wednesday.
The bill, authored by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), effectively cancels the STAR tests for English and Math for this year so that schools and districts have a chance to get ready for the upcoming Smarter Balanced Assessments.
According to an article at ABC:
(http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=9271193)
"California has been giving the STAR tests to all students in grades 2-11. Under the plan approved by Brown, only the science portion of the test would be given to fifth, eighth, and 10th graders next spring before being dropped altogether a year later."
While not much more information has been provided, it looks as if 2 - 11 graders will not be taking the STAR tests this year EXCEPT for the science test that is administered to grades 5, 8, and 10.
I will keep you posted as news develops.
You can view the actual text of the bill here.
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB484
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