AMP test targeted in pre-filed bill

Representative Jim Colver of Palmer has pre-filed a bill that would do away with the one-year-old Alaska Measures of Progress exam.
Just months after AMP’s first run in schools last spring, it started to get a bad rap.
Because the test raised the bar significantly, scores came back significantly lower than previous years’ assessments. And unforeseen challenges had the test vendor rolling out those scores several weeks later than expected this fall.
But the issue that has Representati