MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Representatives from a consortium of states are reconsidering a decision that would greatly increase the costs for some smaller population states, including Kansas and Vermont, of testing students who have significant cognitive disabilities.

The move comes after Vermont Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe wrote a letter Sept. 8 to the governing board of the Dynamic Learning Maps assessment.

Vermont’s congressional delegation also this week complained that the pricing structure will shift the cost of rising prices onto small states like Vermont, which would see a more than 1000 percent price increase from $39 to an estimated $459 per test.

The director of the Achievement & Assessment Institute at the University of Kansas said Tuesday that there’s a very good chance that the governing board will change the cost allocation method.