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WIDA Welcomes South Dakota

March 31, 2008

The WIDA project welcomes South Dakota as the 17th state to adopt ACCESS for ELLs, a test that assesses English language learners in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. ACCESS was created by WIDA, which also developed the English-language-development standards aligned with the test. ACCESS is used by more states than any other English-language-proficiency test to comply with the federal NCLB Act’s requirement that schools test ELLs every year in their progress in English.