The Hamilton County Principals Association signed a resolution today asking the state and local school board not to use results from this year's standardized test to evaluate students, teachers or schools.
This resolution comes days after TNReady's spring testing was supposed to launch online, but failed due to glitches on the testing platform. As a result, Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen sent an email to school district Monday night saying the remainder of testing this year will be taken with pencil and paper.
In the resolution, principals in Hamilton County agree that part one of the test, which was scheduled to be administered over the the span of the next couple weeks should be canceled, saying that instructional time has already been lost preparing students to take the test online.
The resolution also says that the scores from TNReady should not be applied to accountability data until the 2018-2019 school year, hopefully the second year the online format is fully implemented, so results from both years using the same format can be used to measure growth.
Since its rollout, TN Ready has drawn scattered criticism from educators across the state for everything from testing time to the new format, which many say is developmentally inappropriate. For some, these most recent issues demonstrated their concerns were valid.