Pre-filed bill aims to nix controversial AMP school test

Rep. Jim Colver of Palmer has pre-filed a bill that would do away with the year-old Alaska Measures of Progress standardized test.
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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 fa