Sentences with phrase «core standardized»

As you read Peter Greene's piece on Cuomo, recall Malloy's unprecedented assault on teachers and the teaching profession and the failure of the Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly to derail Malloy's unfair, inappropriate and counter-productive initiatives on teacher evaluation and the massive expansion of the Common Core Standardized Testing scheme.

However, to the dismay of teachers, Governor Cuomo balked at a proposal by legislators to impose a two - year moratorium on the use of Common Core standardized test scores in teacher evaluations, saying, «There is a difference between remedying the system for students and parents and using this situation as yet another excuse to stop the teacher - evaluation process.»

According to news reports, the Connecticut State Senator who voted for Governor Malloy's corporate education reform initiative, including the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system and the massive increase in the use of the discriminatory Common Core Standardized Testing Scheme has now «landed a job» working for the Connecticut Education Association.

Those supporting Malloy's education reform initiative were quick to add that the delay in using the corrupt Common Core standardized tests scores shouldn't be for more than a year.

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is one of the two consortia that were given $ 360 million in federal funds to design the new Common Core standardized tests.

No union — in any state — should be assisting with the development of teacher evaluation programs that include the use of Common Core standardized test results.

A growing number of parents (and educators) understand that the Common Core standardized testing frenzy is bad for students, teachers and public schools.

With election day in sight, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy, one the of country's leading corporate education reform supporters, recently issued a press release announcing that he was writing a letter to Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, to «explore» reducing the use of the Common Core standardized testing for 11th graders.

The real problem with the entire situation lies with the Common Core itself and the way in which the Common Core standardized tests have been designed to undermine the stability of public education in America.

So now, after the spending more than $ 50 million dollars in state funds over the post two years on the new Common Core standardized testing scheme, and local school districts spending millions more, the Connecticut State Department will be revealing the test results this afternoon... A Friday afternoon in August.

The Common Core Standardized Testing Scam, known as the Smarter Balanced Assessment consortium (SBAC), is actually designed to ensure that about 70 percent of Connecticut students fail.

«If Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy says anything short of «Commissioner Pryor will be moving on to greener pastures, I am withdrawing Connecticut from the Common Core and we will suspend the Common Core standardized testing program,» Malloy will be doing nothing more than reaffirming his commitment to the corporate education reform industry and not to the students, parents, teachers, public schools and taxpayers of our state.

PARCC, the common core standardized test sold as predicting college - readiness, can not predict college readiness.

Parents — do not let them fool you — you can and should opt your children out of these destructive tests, a set of Common Core standardized exams that are rigged to ensure that up to 7 in 10 children fail.

The Common Core standardized tests are inexorably linked to those Common Core Standards, and until we set aside the Common Core and the Common Core testing, our nation's children, teachers and our entire system of public education system will remain the primary target for those who seek to destroy public education for their own financial and political gain.

Governor Malloy and Commission Pryor repeatedly claimed that federal and state laws trump parental rights when it comes to taking the Common Core standardized tests.

Even the AFT and CEA have admitted that Governor Malloy's 2012 Corporate Education Reform Industry Initiative sought to eliminate tenure for all public school teachers in Connecticut and replace it with a system of short - term contracts in which continued employment as a teacher would depend, in part, on the test scores teachers» students got on the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Standardized Tests.

And while tens of millions of dollars are being wasted on the massive Common Core Standardized Testing Program, Malloy and his administration have repeatedly lied and misled parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new tests.

Your chief strategies are evaluating teachers based on standardized test scores and implementation of the Common Core standardized tests in every grade, with a multitude of interim computerized tests as well as summative computerized tests.

President Obama and a bi-partisan coalition of Republican and Democratic members of Congress used the Every Child Succeeds Act to mandated that no child go untested each and every year, despite the overwhelming evidence that the Common Core standardized testing scheme is unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory, not to mention a waste of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Bridgeport's testing schedule calls for six weeks of standardized district tests, a week of CMT science tests; then the final 12 weeks of school are set aside for the new Common Core standardized tests.

Malloy also proposed massive amounts of new Common Core standardized testing for all public school students and tied his modest funding increases for poor schools to inappropriate privatization strategies.

And then there was the back and forth with Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) in which DeVos was unable to explain the difference between proficiency and growth when it comes to the use of the corporate education reform movement's beloved high - stakes Common Core standardized testing scheme.

Q) How much time will it take for students to complete some of the new Common Core standardized math and English Language Arts tests?

It is worth repeating that while Governor Malloy and Commission Pryor claim that federal and state laws trump parental rights when it comes to taking the Common Core Standardized Tests, there are no federal or state laws that prohibit parents from opting their children out of the Common Core Tests nor is there any law that allows schools to punish parents or students for opting out of the tests.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers were paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop the Common Core standards and the unfair and inappropriate Common Core standardized testing scheme that goes along with those so - called standards.

Public schools in 29 states took Common Core standardized tests for the first time this spring - another milestone in the long transition to higher academic standards.

As more and more students refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests, school districts are dealing with what to do with the protesters during testing time.

Last year 60,000 students opted out across the state, refusing to take the Common Core standardized tests.

The bill would ensure that schools can notify parents they can refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in Common Core standardized tests, protects schools from having state aid withheld & ensures that students are not punished for their lack of participation in those tests, and it would set - aside alternate studies, Last year, parents of 60,000 students refused New York State Common Core tests.

Suffolk County school superintendents stepped up efforts to halt the state's next round of Common Core standardized tests, now less than a month away, with a direct appeal to Cuomo.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), who was the top vote getter in the Assembly on the Stop Common Core ballot line in 2014, today announced new legislation he is introducing, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook), Assemblyman Dean Murray (R,C,I - East Patchogue) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), today took their efforts to the next level to inform parents of their rights to have their children refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests by launching a new statewide petition drive: RefuseCommonCore.com.

Assembly members Tedisco, Graf, Murray & Ra start RefuseCommonCore.com petition to give parents a voice to refuse to have their children participate in Common Core standardized tests

Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher, is the sponsor of the bi-partisan Common Core Parental Refusal Act (A. 6025 / S.4161), to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse without penalty to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Senator Terrence Murphy (R,C,I - Jefferson Valley), Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), Assemblyman Michael P. Kearns (D - Buffalo), Senator Joseph A. Griffo (R,C,I - Rome) and Senator George Latimer (D - Rye) today joined with parents, students and educators in Albany to call for passage of bi-partisan legislation they are sponsoring, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» (A. 6025 / S.4161) to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Tedisco, Graf, Murray and Ra are sponsoring the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» (A. 6025 / S.4161) to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

«The Common Core standardized high stakes tests are making too many children feel like they're just another brick in the wall instead of empowering them to love learning.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square) today called on the Assembly Majority to get serious about the impending Common Core standardized testing crisis in our schools and convene a special session before the first round of tests begin on April 14th to ensure parents know about their rights to have their children refuse the tests.

«Today, the state Assembly is poised to debate and vote on legislation (A. 6777) that only gets half the job done when it comes to ensuring parents are informed of their rights and protected if they choose to opt their children in grades 3 - 8 out of the controversial Common Core standardized tests.»

Legislators seek passage of bi-partisan bill to ensure schools notify parents they can refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in controversial Common Core standardized tests

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York's congressional delegation to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from carrying out a threat to sanction New York schools as punishment for the hundreds of thousands of students who opted - out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests this month.

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

But equally bad, or perhaps even worse, is the Corporate Education Reform Industry's insistence that the only way to determine who is winning and who is losing is through a system of unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Cores standardized tests.

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Niccoli, a town supervisor in Palatine, said last year she and her husband decided with their daughter she would not take a round of standardized testing in math and English language arts based on the Common Core standards.