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Board rejects expanding opt-out protections to bar in-lieu assessments
Summary
A board proposal to require that a parental opt-out of a state assessment also prevent local use of in-lieu or computer-adaptive assessments failed after members raised concerns about local data needs and accountability.
The Utah State Board of Education declined to request legislative language that would explicitly prevent LEAs or schools from administering in-lieu assessments to students whose parents opted them out of statewide tests.
Member Boggess moved that staff work with the Legislature to amend Subsection 53G-6-803(9)(a) to add language clarifying that a parental opt-out also covers computer-adaptive assessments or any assessment administrated by an…
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