Sentences with phrase «absurd common core testing»

Malloy's unwavering commitment to the Common Core, the absurd Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system has rightfully earned him the ridicule of parents, teachers and public education advocates across the state.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

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

Furthermore, the outrageous and absurd Common Core Test is particularly unfair for children of color, children who aren't fluent in the English Language and children who require special educations services.

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Montclair High School's parents and juniors didn't fall for the lies and absurd rhetoric coming from those education reformers — in fact — 68 percent of the students there actually refused to take the Common Core test.

Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their pareTest and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their paretest, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their paretest subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.

Unable to increase local property taxes sufficiently, the warped education strategy that has been developed by Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, will continue to mean that many communities will face higher property taxes while actually being forced to reduce their education programs so they can shift scarce resources away from student instruction and toward implementing the new Common Core tests and the absurd new teacher evaluation program.

Not satisfied with turning public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories, those who would profit from the so - called «personalized learning» approach, and those who support their absurd initiative are now pushing to bring this concept to Connecticut's schools.

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 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.

The notion that Dannel Malloy, a champion of the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme is committed to reducing the amount of standardized testing for public school students is utterly absurd.

Two months after parents in Washington State and Oregon were informed about how their state's children did on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC tests, Connecticut will finally get the news today about how our children «performed» on the absurd testing fiasco.

In what may well be the most incredible and absurd defense of the Common Core SBAC test written to date, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a corporate funded front group for the Common Core and Charter Schools recently published an article entitled, «For Parents, Testing is an Opportunity.»

While the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme is a «high - stakes» test designed to fail students, the NAEP has sought to reflect whether a random group of students have a basic understanding of the key concepts that are actually being taught at each appropriate grade level.

«His support for the Common Core and its absurd, unfair and costly Common Core testing program is undermining our public education system and wasting scarce public dollars,»

As you read Littman's piece, remember that these are the same people who have forced the Common Core on our children, promoted the absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core testing scheme and the equally absurd, unfair and wasteful new teacher evaluation program.

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.

With Election Day less than nine weeks away, Connecticut teachers, parents and public school advocates continue to wait for an indication as to whether any of the candidates for governor will truly stand up against the tide of the corporate education reform industry, including their absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core 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.

As evidenced during the recent public hearing held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.

As part of the ongoing effort to inform students, parents, teacher and Connecticut citizens about the absurd, unfair and inappropriate Common Core testing scheme, the Wait, What?

This one about Governor Malloy's decision to put $ 25 million more on the state credit card to buy computers for the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Testing extravaganza.