{"id":5319,"date":"2020-08-15T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/polehanki\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2020-08-15T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:02:15","slug":"senator-polehanki-students-need-instruction-not-more-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/polehanki\/2020\/08\/15\/senator-polehanki-students-need-instruction-not-more-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Polehanki: \u2018Students Need Instruction, Not More Tests\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Dayna Polehanki<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Livonia) has issued the following statement regarding the passage of a package of bills that mandates assessments and reporting requirements for the forthcoming school year, including additional standardized testing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy Republican colleagues have decided that at the start of the first new school year during the COVID-19 pandemic, they should add yet another standardized test to the long list of standardized tests that students will have to take. I could not \u2014 in good conscience \u2014 vote for a bill package that adds new testing requirements for students and teachers in what is already a historically challenging school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat kids need this year is meaningful instructional time with their teachers, not to be sitting in front of a computer for hours on end taking standardized tests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;Dayna Polehanki&nbsp;(D-Livonia) has issued the following statement regarding the passage of a package of bills that mandates assessments and reporting requirements for the forthcoming school year, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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