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Colorado schools to cut back on standardized testing time in 2027
The changes will cut math and science testing sessions from three to two while keeping the same content and preserving reporting for families and educators.
The Colorado Department of Education announced Monday it will reduce the amount of time students spend taking assessments starting in 2027 in an attempt to put valuable instruction time back into classrooms. The reductions to the Colorado Measures of Academic Success, which assess how well K-12 performance measures up to grade-level expectations, will shorten mathematics and science testing time from three sessions to two, according to a news re…