Although ETS Europe has been paid £35 million for marking the national curriculum tests already, it will have to pay back £19.5 million.
ETS has also agreed to cancel outstanding invoices for work done, amounting to £4.6 million.
In a letter to Barry Sheerman MP, chairman of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, said: “It is important that we learn the lessons of this year’s delays, including for the 2009 test cycle.”
But Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said SATs should be scrapped for 2009.
She said: “It is simply not possible for the QCA to appoint a new test contractor to deliver the SATs exams for 2009. The government needs to take this golden opportunity to completely overhaul its testing regime, and in the interim should suspend SATs for 2009.”
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