Under the terms of the agreement reached yesterday, students will take only the two state tests.

Her own children went to private schools and did not take the state tests, she said.

Students take the state tests in grades 4, 8 and 11.

No public school students, except those in special education, will be exempt from the state test.

The final stage of the state tests were completed on 19 September 2011.

But two years later, she is still reading below standards, a low Level 2, on the state test.

It is normal for state tests to show better results than national ones.

North Star students took their first state tests last year, and the school has yet to receive the results.

The new state test will include essay questions in every grade.

Every child from grade 3 to high school must now take state tests.