Sentences with phrase «core testing scam»

While Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testing scam.

The CEA's efforts to push legislation to phase out the Common Core SBAC testing system is important and appreciated but Connecticut's students, parents and teachers also need the state's largest union to take a public and unequivocal position in support of parents and their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core testing scam.

And the student is absolutely right — The corporate education reform industry and their Common Core testing scam is destroying public education in the United States.

Opt them out of the Common Core testing scam.

In addition, as the blog's creator, I'm beginning a series of in - depth, long - form investigative pieces on how the wealthy and corporate interests behind charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scam and the anti-teacher agenda are undermining our democracy at the state and local level.

After months of silence and despite the overwhelming fact that there is no federal or state law that allows the government or school districts to punish children (or parents) who opt their children out of the Common Core Testing Scam, Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education incredibly instructed school superintendents to continue their unethical and immoral harassment of parents who are seeking to protect their children by opting them out of the Common Core SBAC Tests — A test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 Connecticut public school students are deemed failures and that more than 90 percent of special education students and English Language Learners have «fail» attached to their academic records.

Surrounded by public relations staff and consultants and aided by «media training» sessions, the proponents of charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core Testing scam and various anti-teacher initiatives exude the aura of well - prepared snake oil salesman.

DFER is used as a political action committee and a «dark - money» bundling group that has poured millions of dollars into political campaigns on behalf of candidates who support the Common Core, the Common Core testing scam and the privatization of public educations through the massive expansion of charter schools.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

Faced with the growing opposition to the Common Core testing scam that unfairly labels children as failures and is to be used to inappropriately assess teachers as part of Malloy's teacher evaluation system, many parents are rightfully refusing to allow their children to participate in the Common Core testing farce.

The only thing that will stop the Common Core and Common Core Testing scam from completely destroying our system of public education will be if our elected officials stand up and fight back against the Corporate Education Reform Industry.

Taxpayers, students, parents, teachers and public schools are the losers and the truth about the absurd Common Core testing scam becomes clearer every day.

According to a USDOE press release, 46 States signed up for either or both of the two Common Core testing scams.

And not only will school districts have to put aside instructional time and give the Common Core SBAC test this year, but they will have to do it next year, and the year after, and the year after that, and every single year until this nonsense stops and the state's elected officials finally have the courage to stand up and put an end to the Common Core test scam that is designed to intentionally judge the vast majority of Connecticut's public school children as failures.

Not exact matches

``... while Hartford's public school students, parents, teachers and school administrators are crippled by the Common Core, the Common Core SBAC testing scam and Connecticut's unfair teacher evaluation system, Luke Bronin's child is attending a school that DOES N'T adhere to the Common Core SYSTEM, doesn't force children to take the unfair Common Core SBAC testing program and treats their school teachers like the education professionals that they are.»

In what may be the most incredible, insulting, outrageous and absurd statement yet from Governor Malloy's administration about the Common Core SBAC testing program, Malloy's Commissioner of Education is now blaming teachers for the fact that there is growing opposition to the SBAC testing scam.

Superintendent Luizzi failed to distinguish between Connecticut's Truancy Laws, which do hold parents accountable for a child's failure to attend school and the lack of such laws when it comes to deciding to protect one's child from the Common Core SBAC testing scam.

To read the Commissioner of Education's bull about the benefits of the Common Core SBAC testing scam go to the Hartford Courant's «Education Commissioner: New Test Scores To Usher In New Era.»

With Connecticut's State Department of Education refusing to release the results of the 2015 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) in a timely manner — other states released their state wide results at least six weeks ago — Madison, Connecticut Superintendent Thomas Scarice speaks the truth about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scam.

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.

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.

With every passing day we continue to learn that the Common Core SBAC testing scheme is nothing short of a scam with our state's children being used as little more than «profit centers» for the corporate education reform industry.

The FACT is there is no federal or state law, regulation or policy that allows the government or local school district to punish parents or their children if the parent refuses to allow their child or children to participate in the Common Core SBAC testing scam.

And in addition, while Hartford's public school students, parents, teachers and school administrators are crippled by the Common Core, the Common Core SBAC testing scam and Connecticut's unfair teacher evaluation system, Luke Bronin's child is attending a school that DOES N'T adhere to the Common Core SYSTEM, doesn't force children to take the unfair Common Core SBAC testing program and treats their school teachers like the education professionals that they are.

Failing to ensure appropriate protections are put in place to protect the privacy rights of student and parents due to the massive data collection scam that is part of the Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

In Connecticut, Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman and the «education reformers» have devoted themselves to ensuring that the children, parents, teachers and public schools of the Constitution State are saddled with an absurd and damaging teacher evaluation system that utilizes the Common Core SBAC testing scam results to evaluate teachers.

This news conference did not actually take place, although the more we learn about the Common Core SBAC Testing Scam, the more we wish that this press conference had actually taken place....

If the Governor or legislature do not move quickly to eliminate the expensive Common Core SBAC testing scam or decouple the use of the SBAC results from the state's teacher evaluation system, Connecticut's public schools will be forced to give the inappropriate Common Core SBAC test this spring and towns will be mandated to use the results from that unfair test to measure the «effectiveness» of their teachers.

In a recent commentary piece that was first published in the CT Mirror, Walsh laid out the undeniable facts about the Common Core SBAC testing scam and eloquently called on the Malloy administration and local school districts to stop harassing parents and demanding that they start treating parents with the respect and dignity they deserve.

With the massive inappropriate, unfair and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scam about to sweep into Connecticut's public schools, the Connecticut Education Association held a «major news conference» to discuss:

Their failure to reveal the truth about a parent's right to opt their children out of the Common Core tests is leaving local school officials and parents twisting slowly in the wind as the multi-billion dollar Common Core SBAC testing scam continues to suck up scarce public funds.