{"id":5422,"date":"2021-03-03T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/polehanki\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:39:12","slug":"democrats-introduce-bills-to-pause-the-punitive-use-of-standardized-testing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/polehanki\/2021\/03\/03\/democrats-introduce-bills-to-pause-the-punitive-use-of-standardized-testing-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Introduce Bills to Pause the Punitive Use of Standardized Testing Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LANSING, Mich. (March 3, 2021) \u2014 Sens.&nbsp;<strong>Dayna Polehanki<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Livonia),&nbsp;<strong>Erika Geiss<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Taylor),&nbsp;<strong>Curtis Hertel Jr.<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-East Lansing), and&nbsp;<strong>Paul Wojno<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Warren) today introduced a bill package to pause punitive uses of data from standardized tests for the 2020-2021 school year.<br \/><br \/>In Michigan, students in grades K-12 are evaluated annually using a combination of assessments and merit examinations. Testing was suspended a year ago amid the pandemic, but the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2021\/02\/23\/970520559\/states-must-test-student-learning-this-spring-biden-administration-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Department of Education recently said that states must resume testing this year<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>\u201cOur students and educators have faced an unprecedented and exhausting school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and should not be punished for circumstances that are out of their control,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Polehanki<\/strong>&nbsp;said. \u201cThe grade retention portion of the 3rd grade reading law will be implemented for the first time this year. It is not fair to the thousands of 3rd grade students who can be legally flunked based on their scores on one standardized test they take this spring. In fact, it is unconscionable after all the mental stress they have endured during the pandemic. The retention piece of this law was misguided before the pandemic, as study after study shows that grade retention is not an effective way improve kids\u2019 reading. Now, it is just plain cruel.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Highlights of the bills in this package include pausing the:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read by Grade retention for the 2020-2021 school year (Senate Bill 199; Sen. Polehanki).<\/li><li>State mandate that districts evaluate teachers using student growth data for the 2020-2021 school year (Senate Bill 201; Sen. Hertel).<\/li><li>State mandate that districts evaluate administrators using student growth data for the 2020-2021 school year (Senate Bill 200; Sen. Geiss).<\/li><li>Requirement that Michigan Department of Education assign schools a \u201cletter grade\u201d for the 2020-2021 school year (Senate Bill 202; Sen. Wojno)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sens. Hertel and Geiss introduced bills to pause the use of student growth in teacher and administrator evaluations, respectively.<br \/><br \/>\u201cOne standardized test can\u2019t measure the impact COVID-19 has had on our students and educators,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Hertel<\/strong>&nbsp;said. \u201cWe should be focused on getting students and teachers safely back into the classroom with the support they need, not further penalizing them.\u201d<br \/><br \/>As many schools reopen to in-person learning, uncertainty remains about how statewide testing data results will be used.<br \/><br \/><strong>Sen. Geiss<\/strong>&nbsp;added, \u201cSchool administrators have worked hard throughout the pandemic to make sure students get a quality education, teachers have the resources they need to be successful, and families can rest assured that they are being set up for success. The language of these bills holds harmless students, teachers, and administrators for taking on an unprecedented challenge and that no one misses a beat when it is safe to return to in-person learning.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Sen. Wojno\u2019s bill would pause the letter grades assigned to schools based on student performance data.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThis legislative package is an important step in reassuring our students and schools, that we are acutely aware of the pressure and strains this pandemic has put on our education community,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Wojno<\/strong>&nbsp;said. \u201cPausing these requirements is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. (March 3, 2021) \u2014 Sens.&nbsp;Dayna Polehanki&nbsp;(D-Livonia),&nbsp;Erika Geiss&nbsp;(D-Taylor),&nbsp;Curtis Hertel Jr.&nbsp;(D-East Lansing), and&nbsp;Paul Wojno&nbsp;(D-Warren) today introduced a bill package to pause punitive uses of data from standardized tests for the [&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-5422","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Democrats Introduce Bills to Pause the Punitive Use of Standardized Testing Data - Senator Dayna Polehanki<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/polehanki\/2021\/03\/03\/democrats-introduce-bills-to-pause-the-punitive-use-of-standardized-testing-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democrats Introduce Bills to Pause the Punitive Use of Standardized Testing Data\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LANSING, Mich. 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