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Biddeford HS must wait another week for test results.

Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)

| August 29, 2011 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Jason Singer

Aug. 29--BIDDEFORD -- Biddeford Schools must wait another week to find out its real high school assessment scores, after a computer error led to unusually low test scores, school officials said. Measured Progress, the testing company, will re-run the Maine High School Assessment results for Biddeford High School, using 107 more tests, which school officials said were incorrectly coded as "home-schooled." Jeff Porter, the district's superintendent, blamed the error on a technical mishap. "This error occurred as a result of undiscovered leftover data from our old student data system that became corrupted within our new data system," Porter said. …

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