California students posted a 97 percent participation rate on this year’s statewide English and math assessments, education officials announced Tuesday.
And the numbers were just as strong locally.
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In an attempt to limit the amount of student testing, the U.S. Department of Education has released a “Testing Action Plan” that calls for a limit to the amount of time students spend on standardized tests — specifically, no more than 2 percent of classroom time in a school year. [...]