Petersburg schools testing down due to Kansas cable debacle

The state of Alaska has suspended a state-mandated test because of ongoing problems with the computer based assessment.
Students across Alaska started taking the online Alaska Measures of Progress assessment Tuesday. Testing that day was ended when a construction crew severed a fiber optic cable at the University of Kansas, where the vendor Achievement and Assessment Institute is based.
Statewide the assessment was on hold until Thursday morning. However, districts again had problems after the v