The row over transfer tests for primary 7 pupils is no closer to being settled after heated exchanges at the NI Executive.
The Education Minster faced further calls to cancel the process completely, with a single test, run by AQE, scheduled to go ahead on February 27.
But the decision looks like it is slowly being taken out of the hands of AQE and the minister with five schools already abandoning the test.
DUP leader Arlene Foster denied blocking a call to put the issue to a vote and it was agreed at the Executive meeting that Peter Weir will now present a paper on the issue at the end of next week.