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.”