COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state says it plans to create a new type of fourth-grade test by merging the writing test, dropped because of budget cuts, with the surviving reading exam. Stan Heffner, an Ohio Department of Education associate superintendent, says the state will create a new English language arts exam for fourth graders. Lawmakers cut the fourth-grade writing exam and a fifth-grade social-studies test to save $4.4 million needed to balance the tight state budget. Heffner says the plan is to return the social-studies test after the current budget cycle ends in June 2011. That's good news to some educators who worried about the effect of losing social studies on teaching children about citizenship.
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