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NM senator calls for moratorium on use of test scores (Alb. Jour.)

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NM senator calls for moratorium on use of test scores

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PUBLISHED: Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 12:05 am

A state senator from Albuquerque plans to push legislation during the upcoming session to impose a two-year moratorium on the use of student test scores in New Mexico’s teacher evaluation and A-F school grading systems beginning next school year.

Sen. John Sapien, D-Corrales, said he made the decision after listening to superintendents around the state share their concerns with the evaluations during recent Legislative Education Study Committee meetings.

Sapien’s proposed moratorium would not affect the evaluations prepared in the spring of 2015.

SAPIEN: Has been talking to superintendents

“We’ve been hearing from all of them,” said Sapien, who chairs the LESC. The committee will issue a report on the evaluations in November, he said.

Read more here: http://www.abqjournal.com/480653/news/nm-senator-calls-for-moratorium-on-using-test-scores.html