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If Simon & Garfunkel were expanding their 1964 song, «The Sound of Silence,» they could add a whole refrain about the sad fact that another day has passed with nothing but the sound of silence coming from Connecticut's teacher unions on the critically important issue of a parents right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing program.

With just under two - thirds of New York State's school districts counted, the New York State Allies for Public Education, a pro opt - out group of parents and teachers that are counting opt - out students district by district, announced yesterday that 177,249 students had already been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme.

E4E's mission is to make it seem like real teachers support the corporate education reform industry's agenda that includes repealing teaching tenure, eliminating the teacher seniority process and promoting the use of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme.

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.

However, in unethical, immoral and unprofessional attempt to stop students from opting out or being opted out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme, a number of Connecticut schools are telling students that the SBAC test is a graduation requirement.

Governor Malloy has sworn allegiance to the corporate education reform industry and their dangerous obsession with the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme.

Like Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy, Republican Governor Chris Christie and his administration have been engaged in an unending campaign to mislead parents into believing that they could not opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests.

With the Common Core testing frenzy about to begin in public schools across Connecticut [SBAC testing takes place between March 15 — June 10, 2016], parents are once again reporting that some school districts are informing them that if their child is opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests they will be required to stay in the testing room and «sit and stare» during the entire testing period.

Recognizing that they have a fundamental and inalienable right to protect their children from the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests, hundreds of thousands of parents across the country have been opting their child out of the destructive Common Core testing scheme.

Parents, teachers, school administrators, public education advocates and experts all speaking in favor of the legislation that would drop the use of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests from Governor Dannel Malloy's teacher evaluation program.

Unfortunately, the CEA press release also fails to make a strong and definitive statement of support for a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core Test.

The national president of the AFT, Randi Weingarten, followed up by endorsing the right of parents to opt out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests.

Not exact matches

Of course, making matters worse, not only are Connecticut's public school students being labeled on the basis of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test, but thanks to Governor Dannel Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly, teachers will be evaluated on how well their students do on the Common Core SBAC test.

When it comes to the Common Core SBAC test and other unfair and discriminatory standardized tests, students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

Forcing children, who have been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC test to remain in the classroom for the 8 - 12 hours of Common Core Testing is an immoral and unethical form of bullying and punishment.

Meanwhile, Scott Minnick, a public school teacher in Glastonbury and resident and Board of Ed member of East Hampton, Connecticut explains why parents should join him in opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test.

A bill that would — at least partially — prohibit the Malloy administration from punishing students, parents, teachers and taxpayers when parents utilize their inalienable right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC) testing scheme will be coming up for a public hearing before the Legislature's Education Committee on MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016.

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Unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory because the Common Core SBAC test fails to measure what has actually been taught in the classroom, that the SBAC test is based on materials that is more than two to three levels above grade level, that the SBAC test pass / fail score is calibrated to fail the majority of public schools students and that the SBAC test is particularly unfair because it discriminates against those who face English Language barriers or need special education services.

Parents of public school students in a number of Connecticut school districts continue to report that there are superintendents and principals who are not only misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their child participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and / or the NEW SAT, but are actually telling parents that it is «illegal» for them to opt their child or children out of these tests.

For more than a year and a half, public education advocates in Connecticut have been delivering the message that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test is unfair, inappropriate, discriminatory and fundamentally flawed.

blog post entitled, «Malloy - Wyman Administration ramp - up attack on parents who opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC testing fiasco,» a group of targeted Connecticut public school superintendents and principals were ordered to attend a mandatory meeting at the Department of Education to discuss their failure last sprin, to stop enough parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme.

Just when it seemed that Governor Dannel Malloy's arrogance and bullying couldn't get any worse, Connecticut school officials have been told to instruct parents that they may not opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Consortium Assessment (SBAC) or NEW SAT testing schemes.

On behalf of parents, students and teachers across Connecticut, we are publicly asking the Connecticut Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers — Connecticut Chapter and local teacher union chapters to end their silence and take immediate steps to speak out and support the growing effort by Connecticut parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC test.

To them, school is no place for alternative instructional activities when students are supposed to be taking the inappropriate, unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC tests.

On Friday afternoon — February 19, 2016 — Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman's Commissioner of Education wrote to Connecticut school superintendents who failed to follow the Malloy administration's directive and «allowed» too many parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme last spring.

President Obama and a bi-partisan coalition of Republican and Democratic members of Congress used the Every Child Succeeds Act to mandated that no child go untested each and every year, despite the overwhelming evidence that the Common Core standardized testing scheme is unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory, not to mention a waste of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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.

As the 2015 Session of the Connecticut General Assembly came careening to a close last spring, legislators overwhelmingly approved a bill that replaced the mandate that 11th graders take the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Test (SBAC) with a new requirement that all high school juniors take the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory College Board SAT tTest (SBAC) with a new requirement that all high school juniors take the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory College Board SAT testtest.

Forget that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Test (SBAC) is unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory.

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.

The Common Core SBAC test is particularly unfair and discriminatory for students of color, who come from poor families, who face English language challenges or who utilize special education services.

As readers of this blog know, Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and his State Department of Education continue to claim that federal and state laws prohibit parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

On behalf of Connecticut parents, students and teachers, I'm writing to request that the Working Families Party of Connecticut follow the lead of your colleagues in New York State and join us here as we fight back against the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing program.

article, Incredulous: Watching CT Department of Education officials lecture school administrators on how to mislead parents, reported on the incredible meeting in which public officials from Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education lectured a group of school administrators about how to STOP parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme and then quickly shut down the meeting when a parent stood up to explain why many people feel so strongly about the significant problems associated with the SBAC testing craze,

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.

While the overall waste of taxpayer money and student instructional time associated with the Common Core SBAC Testing disaster undermines the educational opportunities of every public school student, the testing scheme is particularly discriminatory against children who face English Language barriers, children who have special education needs and children who aren't «excelling» at one to two grade levels ahead of their clasTesting disaster undermines the educational opportunities of every public school student, the testing scheme is particularly discriminatory against children who face English Language barriers, children who have special education needs and children who aren't «excelling» at one to two grade levels ahead of their clastesting scheme is particularly discriminatory against children who face English Language barriers, children who have special education needs and children who aren't «excelling» at one to two grade levels ahead of their classmates.

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.

But then, in a bizarre move that appears to be yet another attempt to acquiesce to Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman's ongoing education reform and anti-teacher agenda, the leader of the CEA claims that although the state should not use the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test as part of the state's teacher evaluation program, it is okay to use the NWEA's MAP standardized test as a teacher evaluation tool.

While there is nothing but silence from Connecticut's State Department of Education about the results of this year's unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test, the Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction (Washington State's equivalent of the Connecticut State Department of Education) is reporting that,

A review of the national results of the SBAC data makes it extremely clear why the Malloy administration would want to cover up and keep the Connecticut SBAC results because they clearly show that the Common Core SBAC test is even more discriminatory, unfair and inappropriate than critics ever imagined.

It should be impossible to believe that any Connecticut public official would propose a plan to punish your neighbors if you opt your child out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme, but when it comes to «My Way or No Way» Governor Dannel Malloy, the level of arrogance and vindictiveness is unmatched.

The unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test is designed to ensure that the vast majority of Connecticut public school students are deemed failures after taking this year's Common Core SBAC tests.

-- There is no federal or state law, regulation or legal policy that prohibits parents from opting their children out of the unfair, discriminatory and inappropriate Common Core testing program — and that includes the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests for grades 3 - 8 and the new SAT for grade 11.

Connecticut educator and education advocate, John Bestor, has written another powerful commentary piece, this time dealing with the utter waste of scarce taxpayer funds on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme that is designed to fail a vast number of our state's children.

Today brought additional reports that a small group of Connecticut superintendents, principals and other school administrators continue to mislead and lie to parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC test or are engaging in bullying and harassment of students and parents who have decided to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

No, Malloy and his administration are NOT making the Common Core SBAC testing scheme less discriminatory.

As Connecticut policymakers confront a large and growing state budget deficit, veteran Hartford educator James Mulholland correctly recommends that the $ 17 million in taxpayer funds that are being wasted on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme should be used, instead, to stop the disastrous cuts that will actually hurt and limit opportunities for Connecticut's poorest children.

The Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE), and the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) are among the most vocal Connecticut champions of the Common Core and the unfair, discriminatory and expensive Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.