DeKalb Schools 2015 – 2016 Testing Calendar

 Testing Dates and Religious Holidays
 2015 – 2016 School Calendar

Jewish Holidays: This year Rosh Hashanah will be observed September 13-15. Yom Kippur will be observed on Wednesday, Sept 23. On Aug 7 the school district sent me this response regarding the conflicting Jewish Holidays,

“Principals received the testing calendar with the specified dates of September 14-25, 2015 to administer the ITBS. Although the published time frame is ten days, only six days are needed to administer the ITBS and four days are allocated as make-up days. Since the testing window includes four make-up days for students who miss a component of the ITBS, a parent/guardian should communicate the absence with the local school to ensure that the child has the opportunity to make-up the missed component because of an excused religious observance.”

Student Learning Objectives
Students must participate in SLO Pre and Post Assessments for all courses where there is not a state required test Pre-Assessments must be administered within the first 10 days of a student entering a course and Post-Assessments must be administered at the end of each course and no later than May 20, 2016.