Teacher praises state for exempting migrant students from testing [Video]

DENVER — Thousands of students in Colorado won’t sit for standardized tests this year after new guidance from the Colorado Department of Education allowed for exemptions for many new-to-country students who arrived after October. 

For Denver Public Schools, those guidelines will allow hundreds if not thousands of students to skip this year’s Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) testing. That was welcome news for many DPS students, parents and teachers.

At Munroe Elementary School, fifth-grade teacher Javier Ramirez said he has found a way to get his students excited about math – not an easy task for any class.  Ramirez is doing it in two languages, Spanish and English, as many of his students moved to Denver with their families in recent months.

“And as soon as we see a new …