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Buddy Pearson & Putnam Co. Schools' Jason Stickler Talks Testing Season

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Buddy Pearson talks with Jason Stickler, the Data & Testing Supervisor for the Putnam County School System. Jason talks about the CERT Program the county uses allowing the students to prepare for the ACT at home, how testing affects everything through the state's Department of Education, & what we have learned on the third grade retention law almost a year later.

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