Local districts giving new test provider a big fat F
By Anne Cook
Friday March 10, 2006
Robert K. O'Daniell
Eighth-grade counselor Terry Morgan goes through the piles of boxes of Illinois Standards Achievement Test booklets at Urbana Middle School on Thursday.
URBANA – School officials say area students who were psyched up to take Illinois Standards Achievement Tests this week did their best to measure up to standards.
But they say the test publishers flat-out flunked, a fiasco so extensive state Superintendent Randy Dunn said Thursday he's close to recommending Harcourt Assessment's new contract be canceled. He also said he'd hold the company responsible for extra expenses districts like Urbana incurred last weekend when officials frantically copied test-taking materials that failed to arrive on time.
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