Report shows number of voided standardized tests down

BATON ROUGE, La. - A Jefferson Parish middle school threw out 145 of its students' state standardized LEAP tests in the 2015-16 school year, the highest number of tests tossed at a single school.Those were among the findings of the state education department's annual testing irregularity report.Overall, 186 Louisiana schools voided 885 tests, a smaller number than the 1,271 tests voided the year before.Superintendent of Education John White says the decline in voided tests show that increased tr