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District Schedules Info Sessions This Week on New Standardized Tests
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Saying they want to ensure that parents have a chance to ask questions about new standardized testing that will debut this spring, district officials have scheduled three informational sessions this week. The sessions—scheduled as follows—will center on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium or “SBAC” test that soon will be given to grades three through eight and also grade 11, said Board of Education Chairman Hazel Hobbs:
March 23: Board of Education Meeting – All parents and community members welcome. Special presentation on Assessment at all grade levels. 7 p.m. Wagner Room, NCHS;
March 24: Meeting for parents of New Canaan High School students. Presentation for NCHS parents—1:30 p.m. in the Wagner Room, NCHS;
March 25: Meeting for parents of Saxe Middle School students.