Parents and teachers are upset about LAUSD's plan to require standardized tests for 4-year-olds in the TK program. "DIBELS is not intended for preschool students," Gina Biancarosa said in an email. Rather than taking a test, teachers observe them playing in the classroom — doing puzzles, coloring, building blocks, caring for a teddy bear — and asks their families to offer their own feedback. LA Unified’s current plan to screen TK students with a kindergarten assessment at the end of the year is actually a compromise. Dragich and other TK teachers met repeatedly with the early education leadership team to push back on the district’s testing plan, and she said officials were willing to listen.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 14, 2024 11:23 UTC