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Teacher raises testing concern; district says IReady will be used for K–3 literacy screening
Summary
A Bayonne High School teacher asked if new literacy-screening language would add tests; district staff said the IReady assessment will replace DRA for screenings and will be used for progress monitoring during existing intervention periods, not as an extra test.
At the Bayonne Board of Education meeting April 29, teacher and BEA leader Stephanie Woods asked whether proposed literacy-screening language (agenda item A7) would add another assessment to already busy elementary schedules.
Woods said educators and parents worry about “over assessed” students and asked who would implement screenings…
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