LAUSD Superintendent Pans Standardized Test Cutbacks

The Los Angeles Times (1/15, Ceasar) reports that Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy has written to California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson expressing concerns "about his recent proposal that would reduce the number of standardized tests that students must take next year." Deasy "wrote that he was disappointed that neither LA Unified nor any other large, urban school district was consulted in the development of the proposal. Under the plan, put forward last week by Torlakson, second-graders would not be tested in math and English next year and most high school tests would also be dropped as California moves to a new testing system."