TEA requires STAAR vendor to spend $20 million in fines, investments

The Texas Education Agency directed Educational Testing Service to spend more than $20 million in fines and investments after more than 14,000 students lost answers due to technical issues on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness in March, the TEA announced Tuesday. ETS was fined $5.7 million in liquidated damages and directed to invest $15 million in online testing system enrollment, shipping, online testing, precoding, and scoring and reporting, according to the TEA. The 2015-16 school year was the first year the New Jersey-based vendor administrated the STAAR test. “I believe this combination of liquidated damages with an additional financial […]

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