Wikipedia on WASL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Assessment_of_Student_Learning

"On May 8, 2007, Governor Gregoire signed and officially called the delay of the math and science sections of the WASL test. Now, students in the Class of 2008 will still have to only pass the reading and writing sections. The first class now to pass the WASL test is the Class of 2012. The delay of the math and science portions of the WASL has led to the debate of whether or not to even have the WASL or require it to graduate."

From wikipedia, a very easily accessible source of all groups and ideas, regards that by using political imagination (which is changed constantly, almost yearly, with the WASL) we must reform and shape what we need to make a standardized test in accordance with the believed values of education.