Statewide student test results for the No Child Left Behind program and the Kentucky Core Content Test will be released Wednesday morning, and parents and others who have followed test scores over previous years will notice some major differences.
The old Commonwealth Accountability Testing System — popularly known as CATS — is gone, having been dropped by the state General Assembly last spring. To replace it, lawmakers mandated the creation of a new state school testing and accountability system based on more focused curriculum standards. But that program won't be ready until the 2011-12 school year.
Wednesday's results are from tests that Kentucky students took last spring under an interim testing system that will be used until the new program is in place. Under the interim system, the Kentucky Department of Education will not produce an index score for each school as it did in previous years.
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