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Feds Deny Utah Waiver Request, State Asks for One-Year Reprieve

Feds Deny Utah Waiver Request, State Asks for One-Year Reprieve

June 7, 2018

Marjorie Cortez reports for the Deseret News that, after the U.S. Department of Education rejected Utah’s request to receive a waiver regarding testing requirements, the state will ask the department “for a one-year reprieve from a federal requirement that 95 percent of students participate in statewide testing.”