Standardized test scores in math and literacy will be released next week, with the education minister saying they’ve been delayed so he could do a “deep dive” into the results.

With critics accusing the government of trying to cover up poor scores, Education Minister Paul Calandra told reporters at Queen’s Park on Monday that he’s been looking at board-by-board results and having “a lot of discussions with a lot of people with respect to how the test is working” and that he’s “not going to apologize” for taking the extra time.

“We want to do something with the data to make sure that (students) can do even better,” he said earlier in the legislature, as the opposition criticized the move, saying there’s no reason that the government can’t be looking at the data when teachers and parents

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