Sentences with phrase «by refusing the tests»

Each week, more and more parents choose to protect their children and schools by refusing the tests.

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During testing when our kitchen was overflowing with sweet upon sweet, it was the one treat that Jay hoarded in the fridge, refusing to give any away, savoring bite by bite until it was finally gone a week later.

[2] Boston Red Sox outfielder Mo Vaughn's reason, stated by his lawyer, for failing eight sobriety tests (when asked to recite the alphabet, he couldn't get past P) and refusing to take a Breathalyzer during an arrest for drunken driving.

Everton stood up to the test, withstanding whatever Paul Lambert's men chucked at them — be it their combativity or pace on the counter — and refusing to shrink when hauled back by Eric Maxim Choupo - Moting's late equaliser.

Older toddlers and kids might express their feelings by testing your patience, misbehaving, throwing tantrums, or refusing to eat.

She's at the beginning of the testing age, so she may be trying to exert control by refusing something she knows you want her to drink.

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.

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and schools from being penalized for opting out of the tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children take these developmentally inappropriate high stakes tests.»

Some communities have banded together for an «opt - out movement» with parents refusing to have their children take the tests and preferring that their progress be assessed by class projects and other work.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook), Assemblyman Dean Murray (R,C,I - East Patchogue) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), today took their efforts to the next level to inform parents of their rights to have their children refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests by launching a new statewide petition drive: RefuseCommonCore.com.

The issue of whether the comptroller could hold up the entire budget by refusing to certify it has been debated for years, but has never been tested in the courts.

«The recent blame game between the former President and the Governor of Borno State, strengthens our position that the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari failed a major Transparency Test by refusing to heed our persistent call to publish the 2014 Report of the General Ibrahim Sabo Committee on the Abduction of the #ChibokGirls.

State officials responded by refusing to comment or release documents, while maintaining Gallagher Beach was exempt from beach testing requirements prescribed in New York's bathing beach code.

Some parents are so enraged by the testing process they've refused to let their children take the state tests.

The legal fight began in 2005 when Stanford sued Roche for refusing to pay royalties on three patents held by the university on the HIV test.

Likewise, Christian schools offer models that may prove useful to public schools by eschewing standardized testing; reviving Latin, logic, and rhetoric; emphasizing the place of music and foreign languages; refusing to track students by ability; or choosing an unhurried approach to learning.

The opt out movement, which started as a trickle, became a flood by 2015, with one in five test - takers refusing to sit for state tests, and nearly half in suburban Long Island.

Over the past few years, students by the thousands have refused to take their state's standardized tests.

The district court was troubled by the length of some of the timeouts and what seemed on occasion to be insufficient provocation on M.C.'s part, such as refusing to take his spelling test.

We oppose high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing, the use of standardized test scores as basis for refusing to fund schools or to close schools, and the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.

Approximately one - fifth of all New Jersey school districts have responded by assuring parents who refuse the test that their children will be provided with an alternative location, or at least the ability to read in class, while their classmates take the test.

Lisa Elliott, a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) and 18 - year veteran teacher who has devoted her 18 - year professional career to the Alhambra Elementary School District — a Title I school district (i.e., having at least 40 % of the student population from low - income families) located in the Phoenix / Glendale area — expresses in this video how she refuses to be bullied by her district's misuse of standardized test scores.

The Chicago Teachers Union was depriving the city's children of their right to an education not just during the strike, editorialists argued, but also every day — by refusing to bow down to standardized tests.

There is a «growing campaign» against bringing in the tests, she said, and that parents could support schools by refusing to give permission for children to participate in the trial assessments.

While Achievement First likes to brag that their students do better on standardized tests than students in their neighboring district schools, they fail to reveal that the get those results by refusing to provide educational services to broad social - demographic groups within the community.

Montana proved victorious in its showdown with the U.S. Department of Education over refusing to raise its adequate yearly progress (AYP) testing targets this next school year as required by No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Members also created a step - by - step guide for how to refuse the tests, and the group's social media pages have become a message board for parents to share their PARCC concerns and experiences.

«This is for every teacher who refuses to be blamed for the failure of our society to erase poverty and inequality, and refuses to accept assessments, tests and evaluations imposed by those who have contempt for real teaching and learning,» reads the group's guiding statement.

During the 2015 testing season, over 620,000 public school students around the U.S. refused to take standardized exams, according to a report by the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting season, over 620,000 public school students around the U.S. refused to take standardized exams, according to a report by the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FaiTesting (FairTest).

One can only assume that Polis doesn't like the fact that Ravitch (and many other pro-education advocates) have revealed the fact that charter schools traditionally «increase» their standardized test scores by «creaming» off the best students, discriminating against non-English speaking students and refusing to take their fair share of students who need special education services.

I still refuse because aggregate test - results continue to be used to castigate and punish the few economically and racially integrated schools in our state (like those in my town) for the results of the opportunity gaps highlighted by the disparate scores of in - school subgroups on standardized tests.

Any school administrator who prohibits a parent from opting out (refusing) to have their child take the destructive Common Core SBAC test is putting themselves and their board of education in serious legal jeopardy by engaging in a civil rights violation.

Segregating students with disabilities from non-disabled students by incentivizing the creation of largely unregulated private schools for students with disabilities, and then allowing private schools to refuse children's admission such that the private testing / evaluation scores can be higher than for public schools that must take all students.

NYSUT and dozens and dozens of local teacher unions across New York are taking strong, principled action in opposition to the Common Core testing program and the right of parents to refuse to have their children bullied, abused, tormented or labeled by the disastrous Common Core tests.

In New York States, entire school districts are refusing to even offer the test, a number of courageous teachers in various states are actually refusing to give the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Tests and tens of thousands of parents are stepping up to protect their children by opting them out of the tTests and tens of thousands of parents are stepping up to protect their children by opting them out of the teststests.

The solution to this problem should not result in denying parents their inalienable right to protect their children from what they might consider harmful which is what this bill does by punishing local school districts into pressuring parents to comply with state testing requirements that the education leaders refuse to change.

Although tens of thousands of students participated in last year's Common Core SBAC «Test of the Test,» Governor Malloy's administration has refused to release the test results fearing, no doubt, that by informing parents, teachers, elected officials and the public of the results of the unfair Common Core SBAC test, opposition to these inappropriate standardized tests will grow exponentiaTest of the Test,» Governor Malloy's administration has refused to release the test results fearing, no doubt, that by informing parents, teachers, elected officials and the public of the results of the unfair Common Core SBAC test, opposition to these inappropriate standardized tests will grow exponentiaTest,» Governor Malloy's administration has refused to release the test results fearing, no doubt, that by informing parents, teachers, elected officials and the public of the results of the unfair Common Core SBAC test, opposition to these inappropriate standardized tests will grow exponentiatest results fearing, no doubt, that by informing parents, teachers, elected officials and the public of the results of the unfair Common Core SBAC test, opposition to these inappropriate standardized tests will grow exponentiatest, opposition to these inappropriate standardized tests will grow exponentially.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

Teachers in the area are joining the national group Badass Teachers Association, a national group that pledges to «refuse to accept assessments, tests and evaluations imposed by those who have contempt for real teaching and learning.»

Garfield High School became a leader in the movement for authentic assessment in 2013 when the staff voted unanimously to refuse to administer the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, and were joined by the parents and students in a mass opt out campaign.

From Seattle, to Chicago, to New York City, teachers are defending their students and reclaiming their humanity by refusing to be reduced to a test score.

As a result of his vote, children whose parents refused to allow them to take this test were tormented, bullied, and intimidated by local school administrators and teachers.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

By refusing to admit students who would score lower on standardized tests, Connecticut's charter schools, and most charter schools across the country, artificially create the impression that they do significantly better.

By publicly endorsing and support the opt out effort, the New York State United Teachers join dozens of other teacher union locals who have already voiced their support for parents who are refusing to have their children take the Common Core Testing.

These profiles form the heart of the book, showing students who find community and success (even if not measurable by a multiple - choice test), teachers who provide encouragement, personalized instruction and more meaningful assessments, and a principal who refuses to «teach to the test» and gives teachers a say in developing curriculum.

That State Department of Education's own data provides a stark assessment of how Connecticut's charter schools are doctoring their test results by refusing to accept the diversity of students who make up the communities that these schools are supposed to be serving.

PURE and MTAS ask CPS to respect the decisions of parents to protect our children from test misuse by opting them out, and to honor the teachers who are refusing to give the tests as a matter of conscience and from a sincere desire to provide children with a real education, not just more test prep.

The truth is that the real barriers to educational achievement are primarily due to poverty, language barriers and unmet special education needs and a look at the tables below reveal just how the charter schools are able to corrupt their test results by refusing to take their fair share of the students who face the greatest challenges.