Students were not required to come to school to take the tests. The federal government required Georgia to administer standardized tests in spring 2021 over the protests of Woods. Finally, the state won't factor attendance into its readiness measure, because of COVID-19 related absences.
Nor will it calculate a score based on whether test scores have improved because it will only have data for growth toward English proficiency for students learning the language, leaving out English and math tests. For example, the state will publish a 100-point scale based on achievement on tests of English/language arts, math, science and social studies.īut Georgia won't calculate a score based on whether schools are closing achievement gaps. The Georgia Department of Education will publish multiple 100-point subscores for the just concluded 2021-2022 school year using some of the areas normally combined to make up the overall index. But Woods hasn't proposed any changes, and Deputy State Superintendent Allison Timberlake, who oversees assessment and accountability, said the state currently plans to assign grades in 2023. State Superintendent Richard Woods, a Republican seeking reelection this year against Democrat Alisha Thomas Searcy, has been an opponent of the current index, saying it relies too heavily on test scores. The state didn’t assign grades based on the 2021 tests either, meaning schools last received new grades in 2019. Georgia didn’t administer its Milestones standardized tests to student in grades 3-8 and high school in spring of 2020 and produced no grades after that year.
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