State Superintendent Lindel Fields speaks at an Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting Thursday in Oklahoma City. Fields announced Monday that his predecessor’s plan to dramatically change statewide testing in public schools has been put on hold. (Photo by Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice)
OKLAHOMA CITY — A plan to overhaul statewide testing in Oklahoma public schools is now on hold, with the state’s top education official announcing Monday that spring assessments will continue as usual this year.
State Superintendent Lindel Fields said his administration will consider new approaches to statewide testing, but the process won’t change this year like his predecessor, Ryan Walters, promised. Fields advised school districts to “proceed as normal” with the annual tests, which the state uses to measure student and school performance…