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Senate approves parent review process for instructional materials amid questions about selection methods

Utah State Senate · March 10, 2014
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Senate Bill 257 requires a parent review panel to consider complaints about core curriculum and statewide assessment questions; sponsor said 15 parents reviewed about 20,000 items and removed flagged questions, but senators pressed for clarity on whether question assignments were randomized.

The Utah Senate approved Senate Bill 257, which formalizes a parent review panel for instructional materials and complaints about the state’s core curriculum and assessment questions. Sponsor Senator H. Stevenson told the chamber that roughly 20,000 test questions were reviewed by a panel of 15 parents and that parents flagged and…

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