Severed cable in Kansas hampers test grading in Sitka

Alaska’s star-crossed educational testing system suffered another setback Tuesday when a fiber-optic cable near the University of Kansas was severed at about 1:30 Central Daylight Time.
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The University of Kansas is home to AAI — the Achievement and Assessment Institute —  which provides online standardized testing to school districts across Alaska.
The incident left students high-and-dry in grades 3, 7, and 8 in Sitka as they began the first day of the A