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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- The state Board of Education is replacing the long-used Stanford Achievement Test with the cheaper Iowa Tests of Basic Skills.
Utah's contract to use the S-A-T's ninth edition ends this year. District and state education workers took bids for a new contract.
The school board this week approved a five-year, one-point-six (M)million dollar contract to use the I-T-B-S and the Iowa Tests of Educational Development.
State testing director Louise Moulding said other bids were at least 25 percent more.
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