{"id":172044,"date":"2026-04-21T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172044\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:04:07","slug":"pennsylvanias-school-assessment-system-down-on-1st-day-of-pssa-testing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172044\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania&#8217;s school assessment system down on 1st day of PSSA testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania&#8217;s school assessment system went down on what was supposed to be the first day of PSSA exams on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several school districts in the Philadelphia region sent emails to families, notifying them of the outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, known as PSSA testing, is required by the state&#8217;s Department of Education to be taken online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state&#8217;s Department of Education said in a statement that there was an issue with the testing platform run by DRC that prevented some schools from logging in.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say the issue was resolved in 40 minutes, and the system has been up and running since 9:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">State education officials say they are working with schools that were disrupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Families should contact their local districts for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania&#8217;s school assessment system went down on what was supposed to be the first day of PSSA exams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,22579,77191,77190,4479,77192],"class_list":{"0":"post-172044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news","11":"tag-philadelphia-region","12":"tag-pssa-testing","13":"tag-school-assessment-system","14":"tag-school-districts","15":"tag-the-state39s-department-of-education"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}