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Sixth-grade teacher Kristen Heath helps Tremayne Parker with his writing assignment. Sample testHamilton County s schools are waiting for the ink to dry.The Tennessee Department of Education said Hamilton County s standardized tests should be printed and del air max 1 ivered by the end of this month, and local school officials say students across the district should be taking the first round of TNReady tests March 9-15.TNReady, the state s new assessment replacing T nike dunk low CAP, was intended to be administered online this year, but significant glitches in the online testing platform earlier this month forced the state to return to paper and pencil tests.Hamilton County Assistant Superintendent of Testing and Accountability Kirk Kelly said the school system is familiar with distributing and administering standardized tests on paper, but this year, there isn t a time cushion between the arrival of about 30,000 tests and the start of testing like previous years. We are used to this process, the only thing that makes it different is we are going to have to [distribute the tests to schools] twice for grades 3 through 8, and do it fast, Kelly said. Normally, there is more time between getting the test and when we test. In pre air force 1 vious years, standardized testing has taken place in schools across the district over the same block of four or five sequential days, but the paper-and-pencil version of TNReady is designed to be taken in two separate sections.Kell Hsqg Teenager kills his mother, stepfather and grandmother with high-powered rifle
More B.B. King VideosMan, 22, dies after mixing drinksA 22-year-old Riceville, Tenn., man died Wednesday afte stanley cup r drinking alcohol and energy drinks and possibly taking medication, police said.Caleb T. Hixson died while in an ambulance on its way to Erlanger hospital from a North Chattanooga apartment complex, according to a news release from Chattanooga police spokesman Officer Nathan Hartwig. Police and emergency medical services were called to Riverview Grande apartments on North Natchez Road after Hixson went into a bedroom and started wrecking the room, cutting himself on a piece of glass in the process, Hartwig said.Hixson went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance and was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to police.There are no obvious signs of foul play, but investigators are conducting interviews and collecting evidence to rule out the possibility, Hartwig said.The cause of death is unknown pending review by the Hamilton County medical examiner, and a toxicology test could take weeks, he said stanley flasche .Third shooting in week reportedChattanooga police are investigating the third shooting in a week.Quinn Walker, 29, suffered a single gunshot wound to the thigh just after midnight Thursday, Chattanooga police spokesman Officer Nathan Hartwig s stanley mugs aid in a news release. Walker was taken to Erlanger hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, Hartwig said. He was shot while in a car at 735 Sylvan Drive and a spent bullet casing was found in the vehicle, police said.It
Sixth-grade teacher Kristen Heath helps Tremayne Parker with his writing assignment. Sample testHamilton County s schools are waiting for the ink to dry.The Tennessee Department of Education said Hamilton County s standardized tests should be printed and del air max 1 ivered by the end of this month, and local school officials say students across the district should be taking the first round of TNReady tests March 9-15.TNReady, the state s new assessment replacing T nike dunk low CAP, was intended to be administered online this year, but significant glitches in the online testing platform earlier this month forced the state to return to paper and pencil tests.Hamilton County Assistant Superintendent of Testing and Accountability Kirk Kelly said the school system is familiar with distributing and administering standardized tests on paper, but this year, there isn t a time cushion between the arrival of about 30,000 tests and the start of testing like previous years. We are used to this process, the only thing that makes it different is we are going to have to [distribute the tests to schools] twice for grades 3 through 8, and do it fast, Kelly said. Normally, there is more time between getting the test and when we test. In pre air force 1 vious years, standardized testing has taken place in schools across the district over the same block of four or five sequential days, but the paper-and-pencil version of TNReady is designed to be taken in two separate sections.Kell Hsqg Teenager kills his mother, stepfather and grandmother with high-powered rifle
More B.B. King VideosMan, 22, dies after mixing drinksA 22-year-old Riceville, Tenn., man died Wednesday afte stanley cup r drinking alcohol and energy drinks and possibly taking medication, police said.Caleb T. Hixson died while in an ambulance on its way to Erlanger hospital from a North Chattanooga apartment complex, according to a news release from Chattanooga police spokesman Officer Nathan Hartwig. Police and emergency medical services were called to Riverview Grande apartments on North Natchez Road after Hixson went into a bedroom and started wrecking the room, cutting himself on a piece of glass in the process, Hartwig said.Hixson went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance and was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to police.There are no obvious signs of foul play, but investigators are conducting interviews and collecting evidence to rule out the possibility, Hartwig said.The cause of death is unknown pending review by the Hamilton County medical examiner, and a toxicology test could take weeks, he said stanley flasche .Third shooting in week reportedChattanooga police are investigating the third shooting in a week.Quinn Walker, 29, suffered a single gunshot wound to the thigh just after midnight Thursday, Chattanooga police spokesman Officer Nathan Hartwig s stanley mugs aid in a news release. Walker was taken to Erlanger hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, Hartwig said. He was shot while in a car at 735 Sylvan Drive and a spent bullet casing was found in the vehicle, police said.It