In a letter Friday to the Flossmoor School District 161 community, Superintendent Craig Doster questioned the value of the state-mandated PARCC test for local students and schools.

“From low class sizes to offering a host of extracurricular activities to ‘not teaching to the test,’ much of what happens in District 161 is driven by our community’s high expectations for its schools,” Doster said. “PARCC is an important example of how state mandates sometimes…


