{"id":148804,"date":"2023-10-21T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148804"},"modified":"2023-10-21T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T15:15:11","slug":"essential-skills-testing-suspended-in-oregon-for-equity-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148804","title":{"rendered":"Essential skills testing suspended in Oregon for equity purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leftists-as-window-lickers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-148805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leftists-as-window-lickers-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leftists-as-window-lickers-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leftists-as-window-lickers-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leftists-as-window-lickers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leftists-as-window-lickers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Oregon implemented a skills-based testing requirement that students needed to pass if they wanted to graduate high school. During the pandemic, this requirement was suspended. The Oregon Board of Education voted to extend the suspension. One argument that motivated this decision was that this test marginalized nonwhite students as well as those with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From KATU (2ABC):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are unable to ethically make a different decision at this point. It is also unethical for us to continue to require this when we know it can continue to cause harm and has had no change in how students are performing,&#8221; said Guadalupe Martinez Zapata who chairs the board.<\/p>\n<p>Some parents feel removing the requirement is devaluing Oregon&#8217;s diploma by giving students an easy pass.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Miller was one of two parents who spoke against the decision at the meeting. Others submitted testimony against it online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any parent of a teenager knows that students are more motivated, and they study, if there is going to be a test,&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon still has graduation requirements based on course credits and schools still conduct Essential Skill Assessments. The decision merely removed the requirement that the assessment be used to determine whether students graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Students who do not demonstrate proficiency through the assessment will not be required to make it up their senior year and will no longer be held back from taking other electives as a result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>KATU provides additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/oregon-board-of-education-continues-suspension-of-essential-skills-graduation-requirement#\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Oregon implemented a skills-based testing requirement that students needed to pass if they wanted &hellip; <a title=\"Essential skills testing suspended in Oregon for equity purposes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148804\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Essential skills testing suspended in Oregon for equity purposes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjw-idiocy","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}