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By: SGT News | Published on 12/13/07    

In the state of Idaho, the budget is apparently so lopsided that the state's board of education has decided not to administer the Idaho Standards Achievement Test to ninth-graders because the board simply cannot afford it.

The board said that eliminating the test this year will save more than $820,000. Silence appears to be the answer to the issue of how the state will determine the knowledge level of the state's ninth-graders.

“It's unfortunate, but we must balance our budget,” said board president Milford Terrell. He added that accountability, including fiscal accountability, is key to the state.

The Idaho school board nixed the same test for second-grade students earlier in the year, again to balance the budget.

Grades three through eight, and 10, will still be given the state's achievement test.

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