Grant Community High School District 124 recently issued the following announcement.
The Illinois State Board of Education recently announced that the opening of the 2021 spring assessment window will be delayed to at least March 15. The original administration window for the ACCESS test, which measures the proficiency of English Learners in reading, writing, speaking and listening, would have allowed schools to begin testing as early as Jan. 4. ISBE’s action today ensures no student will take a federally required assessment, including ACCESS, until March 15 at the earliest.
ISBE’s decision to delay testing gives schools the maximum possible time and flexibility to prepare for the assessment administration or to receive new direction from the Department of Education. The federally required assessments in Illinois are the Illinois Assessment of Readiness for students in grades 3-8; the SAT for students in grade 11; the Illinois Science Assessment for students in grades 5, 8, and 11; the ACCESS for English Learners; and the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment for the 1 percent of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
More information about spring assessment testing at GCHS will be forthcoming.
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