Sentences with phrase «sbac testing issue»

While Connecticut school teachers should take the advice and guidance from their union's lawyers extremely seriously, the memo falls short of providing teachers with all the information they need about the legal issues surrounding what a teacher can or can not say about the Common Core or the Common SBAC testing issue or when they can say it.

In Connecticut, the SBAC disaster was slowed by a handful of dedicated and committed public school superintendents who recognized that parents had the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the destructive SBAC test, but the majority of local education leaders (and elected officials) kowtowed to the Malloy administration and engaged in an immoral and unethical effort to mislead parents into believing that schools had «no degrees of freedom» on the SBAC testing issue.

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Please consider joining me at these upcoming events to hear about and talk about the Common Core SBAC Testing Scheme and other «Education Reform» Issues

But beyond the major underlying problems with the SBAC tests, an incredible issue immediately stands out when reviewing the SBAC test results.

While this move reduces testing time for third through eighth graders by an hour to an hour and a half, it does nothing to address the underlying issues with SBAC repeatedly raised by CEA members and leaders.

Donald Williams, CEA director of Policy, Research, and Reform and a member of the Mastery Examination Committee, highlighted a survey of Connecticut teachers, as well as a survey of teachers from other states, outlining serious concerns and issues with the validity, reliability, and fairness of the SBAC test and the harm it is doing to children.

Whether your state uses PARCC, SBAC or its own state standards, the common core - inspired standardized test can create a flurry of activity ranging from adjusted school schedules to last minute study sessions, not to mention all of the logistical issues.

Just last week, Malloy's Interim Commissioner of Education, Dianna R. Wentzell, issued a directive to all local school superintendents informing them that the Common Core SBAC testing program was mandatory and that, «These laws do not provide a provision for parent's to «opt - out» their children from the taking these tests.»

Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel Malloy.

Governor Dannel Malloy's press office just issued a «major announcement» concerning the Governor's position on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test.

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.

Last year, a directive issued by Governor Dannel Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, instructed local school superintendents and principals that Connecticut parents COULD NOT opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC tests and his memo even provided districts with step by step instructions on how to pressure parents into not utilizing their rights to opt their children out of the tests.

According to a press advisory issued earlier today, the Connecticut Education Association will hold a press conference at 11 am at the Legislative Office Building on Thursday, January 7, 2016 to call on Governor Dannel Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly to «join with the majority of states in the U.S. that have replaced the federally - sponsored SBAC or PARCC tests with better, more authentic and effective assessment programs.»

When considering the refusal (opt - out) issue it is critically important that parents understand that there is no federal or state law that eliminates a parent's right to refuse to allow their children to take the SBAC test.

While the decision is an important milestone on the school funding issue, Judge Thomas Moukawsher's Memorandum of Decision is nothing short of absurd, ill - conceived and simply wrong when it comes to Connecticut's special education programs, the state's illogical teacher evaluation system and the state's over-reliance on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC and SAT testing schemes.

Late yesterday afternoon, Dianna R. Wentzell, Governor Malloy's Interim Commissioner of Education issued a directive to Connecticut school superintendents reiterating the lie the Connecticut parents do not have the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing Program.

Despite repeated requests that they use today's State Board of Education meeting to instruct Interim Commissioner of Education Wentzell and her senior staff to stop misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test, the state board failed to address the issue in any way what - so - ever.

Instead the Education Committee merely endorsed the concept of a study about the Common Core SBAC testing and, even then, failed to include the test's validity as an issue to be studied.

Instead the planned teacher union rally is focused on promoting the union's proposed legislation (Senate Bill 1095) which is a well - intentioned proposal to «phase - out» the SBAC Testing, but contains a series of issues and problems of its own.

Teachers need to tell the Connecticut Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — Connecticut Chapter to immediately issue strong statements condemning this year's Common Core SBAC tests.

Their authority to try and force a child to take the SBAC test, or punish a child who does not, is not like the authority they have to deal with the issue of truancy, which is clearly and concisely laid out in state law.