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State Education Commissioner John King (right) reversed the plan to impose standardized testing upon young children.
City kindergartners won’t have to take standardized multiple-choice math tests again this year.
State Education Commissioner John King reversed an earlier decision requiring 36 schools to give the tests to kids as young as 4.
The tests — required as part of this year’s new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union-led drive to ban standardized tests for pre-kindergarten through second grade.
After a Daily News story on the exams, city officials petitioned the state to allow them to develop an age-appropriate test for kindergartners through second grade.
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