Ken Winters on Student Assessment Bill

By Kate Lochte

Murray, KY – Republican Kentucky Senator Ken Winters, of Murray, and Senate President David Williams, Republican-Burkesville are sponsoring the bill which would end the current system of student assessment by 2012. The bill proposes the removal of open-response questions from the state's end-of-year student assessments in favor of a national norm-referenced test augmented by additional multiple-choice tests to cover the state's core content. Kate Lochte has more about it with Senator Winters.