In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting
on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition
of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department
of Education for violating the Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental Quality
Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.
On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board
of Education Committee meeting to
review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner
of Education and other State Department
of Education staff as they relate to the issue
of a
parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out
of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose
parents have opted them out
of the SBAC testing.