Spring break is not too far away – and that means schools are going to have to come up with another back-to-school testing plan.
“We don’t know what’s coming next month, we don’t know what’s coming throughout the next year, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it's that we have to be ready,” said Ana Vasudeo, who sits on Berkeley’s school board
But where will the funding come from? And can the state guarantee that all schools will have enough staff to administer the tests? “That’s the thing that I think is hard to legislate – is where do you get the people from, because we all know that schools are going through and still having staffing shortages,” said Michelle Smith McDonald of the Alameda County of Education.
According to the Alameda County Office of Education, those free take-home test kits from the federal government are accounting for a lot of the available supply. “We heard anecdotally about some districts that put in orders for tests and they were pulled back because those orders went to the federal government,” said McDonald.
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