Contemporary Ballet by Jessica Lang Dance: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23, Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. This performance highlights the company’s genre-bending movement style. $37-$61. https://bit.ly/2Wtb6QE. Movement of Colors: 8-9:30 p.m. Feb. 23, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley. Music by Clerestory, inspired by art and artists. $5-$30. https://bit.ly/2MtqnfO. Irish Day: 2-4:30 p.m. Feb. 24, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. Paradise Square is a powerful musical based on an extraordinary slice of history set in Five Points, New York, in 1863. Enjoy a special meet-and-greet with actors and dancers, and an after-show talk with Irish Consul General Robert O’Driscoll. $115. https://bit.ly/2MPU6PW.
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Borst said the school and superintendent asked the New Jersey Department of Education for guidance. Rather than staying home, Borst’s daughter had to go into the principal’s office each morning of the test and refuse to take it. Borst then drove her home. “It was kind of convoluted and kind of a dance you do, and the result is the school district, they don’t get dinged,” Borst said. Michael Yaple, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Education, said about 98 percent of New Jersey students take standardized tests.
