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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Char Daston | WBEZ

The standardized test for students in Illinois gets low marks. Will the state meet a 2025 deadline to fix it?

There’s broad agreement the state test elementary students take each spring needs an overhaul, but advocates worry time is running out to change it. Here, students at Darwin Elementary School in Chicago work on a diagnostic test last fall. (Manuel Martinez / WBEZ file photo)

A coalition of teachers unions, advocates and parents’ groups are pushing a long list of changes to the standardized test Illinois elementary students take each spring.

They are motivated by a widely shared view, including by the Illinois State Board of Education — that the current test doesn’t do much for students or teachers.

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