A business lobbying group that鈥檚 been a big supporter of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or , has called for some changes, saying that the program may have gone overboard in trying to introduce accountability so quickly.
The wants to reduce the number of tests a high school senior needs to pass in order to graduate, and to push the entire program鈥檚 full implementation back three years.
鈥淥nly 25 percent of those who graduate graduate career- or college-ready, meaning that they could go to a community college without taking remedial courses,鈥� said association President Bill Hammond.
Hammond says his group still supports the overall testing framework, but that it needs to be simplified.
Starting this school year, a student鈥檚 score on the STAAR exam was supposed to affect 15 percent of his or her final grade. But the to the rule.
