affecting the same platform over multiple days<\/a> \u2013 after which families were \u201cassured that the system would be stabilized to prevent exactly this kind of breakdown,\u201d New York City-based Zeta Charter Schools founder and CEO Emily A. Kim told The Post.<\/p>\n\u201cThe current system is failing, creating unnecessary challenges for students, teachers and administrators,\u201d Kim fumed, adding that her students Wednesday faced \u201crepeated login failures, uncertainty and disruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis experience creates stress, breaks momentum, and inevitably affects how students show up when testing is rescheduled.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers union, also ripped state education officials over the failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current system is failing, creating unnecessary challenges for students, teachers, and administrators,\u201d Zeta Charter Schools CEO Emily A Kim fumed. Paul Martinka for New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce again, students and educators were left scrambling because the state failed in its responsibility to hold its vendors and consultants accountable,\u201d Mulgrew said in a statement. \u201cThe UFT is talking with state officials, so children and school communities are not penalized for a mess others made.\u201d<\/p>\n
LaMae de Jongh, provost of Success Academy Charter Schools, added: \u201cToday\u2019s test disruption is more than just a technical issue; it is a profound disservice to the students statewide who arrived ready to excel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must be able to trust NYSED and the vendors they employ,\u201d de Jongh added. \u201cSystemic failures should never come at the expense of our students\u2019 hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SED said that, upon learning of the glitch, it contacted vendor NWEA to \u201cexpeditiously address the issue,\u201d a department spokesperson argued.<\/p>\n
More than 116,000 students were \u201ctested without error this morning, with thousands more expected to complete testing later today,\u201d a state education department rep said. arrowsmith2 \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
More than 116,000 students were \u201ctested without error this morning, with thousands more expected to complete testing later today,\u201d the rep noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issue appears to be impacting a limited number of users of the Grades 3-8 Computer-Based Testing System, across select schools and districts statewide,\u201d spokesperson JP O\u2019Hare said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have advised impacted schools that they may briefly pause testing or delay to another day within the testing window, which expires May 15, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Kim argued that NWEA, which has a $20 million contract with the education department set to expire in November, failed to address concerns directly Wednesday morning \u2013 leaving nearly 2,000 Zeta Charters students in the dark.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are calling on NYSED and its testing vendor NWEA to provide immediate transparency about what went wrong, and what concrete steps will be taken to ensure that widespread platform failure does not happen again,\u201d Kim said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRepeat system failures reflect state test administration\u2019s inadequate preparation, planning, and platform testing, and the outages impose unacceptable impacts on kids in a high-stakes testing environment mandated by the state,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur students deserve a testing experience reflecting the same level of preparation, care, and accountability we ask of them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This system doesn\u2019t pass the test. New York students faced massive testing hiccups Wednesday due to a \u201cwidespread…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4337,67,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,5271,6926,58],"class_list":["post-214958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-department-of-education","tag-education","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-schools","tag-state-education-department","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}