Locally (for some of us now): Back to school + WASL = anxiety test

Yes there is a quite a bit of whining in this article:

I don't even want to start the school year," said Brown, 29, who saw the number of students in his Federal Way district classroom spike from 17 to 28 last year. "We're already getting e-mails about how test scores have got to come up."

But some good points as well:

Some educators are dismissive of the new mandates, convinced the rules will change even further in the future. In Bellevue, Superintendent Mike Riley said he would rather focus on preparing all students for college than on preparing them for the state's test. If Bellevue can prepare kids for college, he said, high test scores will follow soon enough.

"I'm not going to give anyone an ulcer over this," said Riley.