Never mind the downstream costs of bad data for schools. What do we pay for North Carolina’s standardized testing program? Meaning, those not required for federal funding or compliance.
According to the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division, over $3.6 million a year.
House Bill 609 would suspend this for two years, presumably to allow time to think about using nationally-normed tests rather than writing our own (which, by the way, is 58% of the cost).
