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Mother and parent advocates ask Hamilton County to cut standardized benchmark testing and publish testing hours
3055366 · April 19, 2025
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Summary
A parent presented detailed calculations she said show a first grader spends 67 hours on standardized tests and urged the board to reduce benchmarks and publish actual testing hours by grade.
Amanda Shaw, a Hamilton County parent and district employee, told the school board at the April 28 work session that she calculated the time her first grader spent on standardized testing and urged the district to reduce benchmark assessments.
“His minutes are important to me,” Shaw said, describing a cross‑section analysis she titled…
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