Redondo Beach Unified School District testing interrupted by Frontier internet outage
Redondo Union High School, one of the sites of the district-wide outage. Photo More than 5,000 Redondo Beach Unified School District students had state-mandated standardized testing disrupted when their internet connection, provided by Frontier Communications, failed on Thursday. “Email and internet access is very important to us, and high-stakes assessments are very important to us, and they’ve compromised the integrity of our instructional programs,” said District Superintendent Steven Keller. It’s currently testing time across RBUSD, as students in nearly every grade level are taking state-mandated Smarter Balanced tests. “Ninety percent of state-required tests are computer-based and adopted,” said Annette Alpern, Deputy Superintendent of Educational Services. “We’re 100 percent dependent on having internet accessibility.” The district lost that connectivity in each of its 12 school sites today, beginning at 9:30 a.m., according to Alpern. That’s when she received the first call from a school principal alerting her to an issue. It wasn’t long before the District’s Information Technology department determined, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, that…
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