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| Title | School Administrators Work To Develop Foreign Language Exams |
| Body | From http://bellmore.patch.com/articles/school-administrators-work-to-develop-foreign-language-exams-3 School Administrators Work To Develop Foreign Language Exams As NYS backs away from development of certain tests, local schools team to fill the void. By Karen Forman December 5, 2010 With New York State no longer developing final exams for select foreign languages and threatening to eliminate more due to budget restrictions, a group of Long Island school administrators has met in an effort to develop proficiency tests for middle school and high school students. The Foreign Language Association of Chairpersons and Supervisors (FLACS), which includes representatives from 60 school districts across Nassau and Suffolk counties, held a public meeting Wednesday at Half Hollow Hills East High School in Dix Hills. FLACS officials said the group is working to fill the void created by the state. Districts that do not join the consortium will have to create these exams for themselves, since the state is no longer providing them. Recently, New York eliminated the creation of all non-English language exams at the middle school level and of Hebrew, Latin and German Regents exams at the high school level. The state will continue to create Regents exams for Spanish, French and Italian, but it also considering eliminating the creation of the Italian exam for the 2011-12 school year. Read the full article at http://bellmore.patch.com/articles/school-administrators-work-to-develop-foreign-language-exams-3 |
| Source | Bellmore Patch |
| Inputdate | 2010-12-12 10:46:41 |
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