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Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

The final budget will change some elements of Common Core, but will keep intact, for now, teacher evaluations tied partly to standardized test results of students in public schools.

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.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

ALBANY — A deal is being negotiated to place a two - year moratorium on the use of student tests based on the Common Core for grade promotion in public schools.

Buffalo Public Schools posted opt - out rates that fell from 9 percent to 7.7 percent in English language arts and from 15 percent to 8 percent on the math tests, preliminary numbers compiled by the opt - out advocacy group United to Counter the Core show.

More than half of Long Island students eligible to take the state Common Core test in English Language Arts refused to take the exam this week, according to a Newsday survey of public school districts ending Thursday, the third and final day of the assessment.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

As public school students in New York state sit at their desks today taking the Common Core based English Language Arts tests, a nationally known opponent to the core is in SyracCore based English Language Arts tests, a nationally known opponent to the core is in Syraccore is in Syracuse.

U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of improvement.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

The regulation — proposed by the U.S. Department of Education — would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

He said the high - stakes testing linked to Common Core is designed to fail public schools in disadvantaged communities and convert then into privately - managed charter schools.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

At the event, Jones, who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and students in high - pressure environments with «high stakes» testing.

Teaching a core tested subject like middle school math in the challenging environment of urban public schools is a high - stakes game.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Like other public school students in Michigan, HFA students must pass the state's proficiency test, so they needed competence in core areas.

A discussion of the design and administration of the poll, along with an interpretation of the key results, is available in «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Public thinking on testing, opt out, Common Core, unions and more» by Henderson, Peterson and West.

In this webinar, you'll hear directly from Jay McPhail, chief technology officer at Fullerton School District, Calif., and Jeremy Cunningham, network and systems engineer at Bryant public schools, Ark., about their recent wired and wireless deployments, and how they ensured high - availability and high - performance for their districts» common - core testing.

Her kids go to public school in New York, one of the first states to test students on Common Core.

The Common Core test is designed to fail the vast majority of public schools students, including up to 9 in 10 students who aren't proficient in the English Language or require special education help.

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.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

In exchange, they receive more autonomy, although all public schools, charter or traditional, use the same course content (Common Core, renamed «New Jersey Student Learning Standards) and the same tests (PARCC, which, by the way, just got an «unconditional thumbs - up» for accurately measuring student growth).

Meanwhile, Scott Minnick, a public school teacher in Glastonbury and resident and Board of Ed member of East Hampton, Connecticut explains why parents should join him in opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test.

• Many progressives criticize the role that the Common Core plays in magnifying the the toxic testing culture that NCLB and its high - stakes testing made a feature of life in public schools.

The campaign comes at a time when public education is increasingly riven by battles over the use of standardized testing in teacher performance evaluations and the rollout of the Common Core, new benchmarks for what students need to know and be able to do between kindergarten and the end of high school.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

As districts across the country brace themselves for low student scores on tough Common Core tests this spring, the staff at Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, Massachusetts, isn't sweating it.

In Mississippi, where test scores are among the country's worst, participants in one particularly vituperative public meeting complained that the Common Core is akin to «a Muslim takeover» of schoolIn Mississippi, where test scores are among the country's worst, participants in one particularly vituperative public meeting complained that the Common Core is akin to «a Muslim takeover» of schoolin one particularly vituperative public meeting complained that the Common Core is akin to «a Muslim takeover» of schools.

The testing is a change in the way New Jersey assesses how its public schools are performing and students are learning, fully aligned with the national Common Core State Standard.

Common Core will establish one national standard for curriculum and testing in an effort to raise the performance of American public school students.

Instead of fulfilling their legal, moral and ethical duty as a superintendent of a public school system in Connecticut, yet another public school superintendent has decided to join the Malloy's administration's ongoing efforts to mislead Connecticut parents into thinking that they do not have a right to opt their children out of the absurd, unfair and inappropriate Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test of a tTest of a testtest.

In yet another powerful commentary piece, Wendy Lecker goes to the root of the problem with the Common Core SBAC testing scheme and strategies being foisted on public school children, parents and teachers.

Unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory because the Common Core SBAC test fails to measure what has actually been taught in the classroom, that the SBAC test is based on materials that is more than two to three levels above grade level, that the SBAC test pass / fail score is calibrated to fail the majority of public schools students and that the SBAC test is particularly unfair because it discriminates against those who face English Language barriers or need special education services.

For years, elites in big business, foundations, well - endowed think tanks, and corporate media have conducted a well - financed marketing campaign to impress on the nation's public schools an agenda of change that includes charter schools, standardized testing, and «new and improved» standards known as the Common Core.

Parents of public school students in a number of Connecticut school districts continue to report that there are superintendents and principals who are not only misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their child participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and / or the NEW SAT, but are actually telling parents that it is «illegal» for them to opt their child or children out of these tests.

Hopefully more Connecticut school administrators will join education leaders like Madison, Connecticut Superintendent Thomas Scarice and stand up, step forward and speak out against the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test (SBAC), the overuse of standardized testing in Connecticut's public schools and the right of parents to opt - out their children from these unfair, unnecessary, expensive and destructive tests.

And teachers don't seem to matter to people like Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy who is not only an adherent to the Common Core and the Common Core Testing fiasco but remains the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose eliminating tenure for all public school teachers and rescinding collective bargaining rights for teachers working in the state's poorest school districts.

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.

The Connecticut State Department of Education has decreed that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests will be given between March 15, 2016 and June 10, 2106, for public school students in grades 3 - 8.

article, Incredulous: Watching CT Department of Education officials lecture school administrators on how to mislead parents, reported on the incredible meeting in which public officials from Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education lectured a group of school administrators about how to STOP parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme and then quickly shut down the meeting when a parent stood up to explain why many people feel so strongly about the significant problems associated with the SBAC testing craze,

In Connecticut the Common Core SBAC test is designed (rigged) to label more than 60 percent of all public school students as failures and the way the test is scored will mean the failure rate will likely exceed 90 percent for students who need special education services or aren't fluent in the English languagIn Connecticut the Common Core SBAC test is designed (rigged) to label more than 60 percent of all public school students as failures and the way the test is scored will mean the failure rate will likely exceed 90 percent for students who need special education services or aren't fluent in the English languagin the English language.

With the Common Core testing frenzy about to begin in public schools across Connecticut [SBAC testing takes place between March 15 — June 10, 2016], parents are once again reporting that some school districts are informing them that if their child is opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests they will be required to stay in the testing room and «sit and stare» during the entire testing period.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced Thursday that he would require school districts to offer the Common Core practice tests, created by the Smarter Balanced states» consortium, in both math and English language arts next spring.

In addition, they pontificate that students learn best when schools are mandated to use the ill - conceived Common Core standards so classrooms become little more than Common Core testing factories and the teaching profession is opened up to those who haven't been burdened by lengthy college based education programs designed to provide educators with the comprehensive skill sets necessary to work with and teach the broad range of children who attend the country's public schools.