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Superintendent urges state fixes after statewide testing platform failure; board declines formal endorsement
Summary
After an online testing platform failure that disrupted exams for tens of thousands of North Carolina students, New Hanover County Schools Superintendent Charles Barnes wrote to the state superintendent asking that impacted districts not be penalized; the school board discussed and declined to formally endorse the letter.
New Hanover County Schools Superintendent Charles Barnes wrote to state education leaders after a statewide testing platform failed during end-of-grade exams, disrupting testing for large numbers of students and forcing the district to suspend tests for the day.
Barnes told the school board that the platform failure on the morning of May 28 interrupted exams while students in grades 3–8 were testing, and that the district suspended testing because “our students deserve a calm, focused environment to demonstrate what they’ve learned.” He said restoring testing the next day required staff to issue more than 7,200 individual test tickets, a massive manual effort by the testing department.
In his letter to the state superintendent, Barnes…
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