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LANSING — In a normal year around this time, thousands of students across Michigan would be quietly filling in bubbles on the state’s standardized test.
As with all things education and COVID, it’s a little different this year.
In 2020, with the virus still new and unknown, the U.S. Department of Education waived its requirement that schools administer state summative assessments. That included the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, otherwise known as the M-STEP, which is administered to students in grades 3 through 8 and 11.
Michigan officials tried for months to secure another waiver this year, but were denied. Instead, they got a compromise: Schools are required to