EDUCATION officials are in the market for new exams to determine which students get picked for the city’s gifted and talented programs — after testing giant Pearson botched the tests last year.
A request for proposals issued Monday called on companies to create new exams for assessing which students from kindergarten through third grade qualify for the popular programs.
The new tests would begin this summer. Pearson is contracted through 2015, but education officials said they’d cut the deal short if they found a better one.
“We’re committed to ensuring that the tests used for eligibility to gifted and talented programs are implemented and scored effectively,” said education department spokesman Harry Hartfield.
Pearson bungled the exams with a plethora of errors in 2013 that resulted in the company mistakenly telling some 3,000 kids they didn’t qualify, when in fact they had.
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