Release of State Test Results Could Be Delayed

The results of the state's new tests for public school students could be delayed until November. Board of Education officials had originally said scores would be released sometime late October. The state Department of Education has been telling school districts and members of the public for months to expect the scores from the new K-PREP tests to be lower than the scores have been for the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System, or CATS, especially in math and reading.

That's because the K-PREP tests measure new benchmarks. The department says parents will receive their children's scores about two weeks after the public release.