Schools Preparing For New Testing System

• {Frankfort,  Kentucky}...Kentucky schools are preparing for results they will get under a new state testing system that will be administered to students in the spring. State Senator Ken Winters, R-Murray, who introduced legislation to overhaul the state's testing system, says it decreases testing time and emphasizes individual student scores instead of school and district results. Elementary and middle school students will be tested over five day during the last two weeks of school. Students in high school will take end-of-course exams in four subjects this spring: U.S. history, algebra II, biology and English II. The new system will lend greater importance to the performance of at-risk students.