If more students are able to take a college admissions test at no cost during the school day, more underrepresented students can be connected directly to scholarships, personalized test practice ...

The “Smarter Balanced” standardized tests in math and English language arts that California students will take in the spring to measure their academic progress will have fewer questions and take less ...

Across the district, the number of students who earned mastery scores on the math Smarter Balanced assessment also increased. In 2022-23, 70.3 percent earned a mastery score and in 2023-24, it ...