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By Staff and wire reports

POSTED: 09:03 a.m. EDT, Apr 29, 2008

COLUMBUS: State-mandated testing of third-through eighth-graders gets into full swing this week.

But education officials say a combination of errors has led to a widespread shortage of test forms for some students. Stan Heffner, the state's associate superintendent, says 20,000 special test forms were printed, but it appears that 60,000 were needed.

Akron school district spokeswoman Karen Ingraham said this morning that Akron was missing 1,800 test forms at the beginning of this week.

Ingraham said the forms are for students with disabilities who were to take the tests as a test reader asked questions. She said some of the missing forms were arriving this week, in special deliveries, and students were taking those tests. Students also will be scheduled to take make-up tests next week.

The Ohio Department of Education says the shortage has affected about 450 school districts. Substitutes hired as test readers have been called off and arrangements for special testing sites have been canceled.

Heffner says some districts simply didn't order enough tests — perhaps because of unclear instructions. The Department of Education also erroneously lowered numbers on its own.

COLUMBUS: State-mandated testing of third-through eighth-graders gets into full swing this week.

But education officials say a combination of errors has led to a widespread shortage of test forms for some students. Stan Heffner, the state's associate superintendent, says 20,000 special test forms were printed, but it appears that 60,000 were needed.

Akron school district spokeswoman Karen Ingraham said this morning that Akron was missing 1,800 test forms at the beginning of this week.

Ingraham said the forms are for students with disabilities who were to take the tests as a test reader asked questions. She said some of the missing forms were arriving this week, in special deliveries, and students were taking those tests. Students also will be scheduled to take make-up tests next week.

The Ohio Department of Education says the shortage has affected about 450 school districts. Substitutes hired as test readers have been called off and arrangements for special testing sites have been canceled.

Heffner says some districts simply didn't order enough tests — perhaps because of unclear instructions. The Department of Education also erroneously lowered numbers on its own.



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