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In New Mexico, hundreds of high school students walked out of the first day of PARCC testing last week; the number of parents refusing tests doubled in Albuquerque from last year to this year.

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Hundreds of high schools students in Boulder staged a mass walk out Thursday and Friday, refusing to take their 12th grade social studies and science tests.

One of the largest student protests against high - stakes testing in U.S. history occurred last spring when many hundreds of students in New Mexico — at schools that served 90 % Latino students — walked out of school and refused to take the new Common Core exams.

Hundreds of students from a number of Maryland and DC schools walked out of their classrooms and made a trip to the U.S. Capitol and the White House to call for gun legislation, one week after 17 were killed in the latest mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Flschool shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FlSchool in Parkland, Florida.

PARKLAND, FL - FEBRUARY 20: Tiffany Bogert cheers on some of the hundreds of her classmates from West Boca High School as they arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after they walked there in honor of the 17 students shot dead last week on February 20, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.

PARKLAND, FL - FEBRUARY 20: Ema Sare is hugged as the West Boca High School student joined hundreds of fellow students that walked to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in honor of the 17 students shot dead last week on February 20, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.

PARKLAND, FL - FEBRUARY 20: Jakob Desouza hugs Ruth Williams as the two West Boca High School students joined hundreds of fellow students that walked to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in honor of the 17 students shot dead last week on February 20, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.

Hours after teachers arrived at the school, hundreds of students from West Boca High School made the 10 - mile walk to Stoneman Douglas for the second time to pay their respects at a memorial outside the sschool, hundreds of students from West Boca High School made the 10 - mile walk to Stoneman Douglas for the second time to pay their respects at a memorial outside the sSchool made the 10 - mile walk to Stoneman Douglas for the second time to pay their respects at a memorial outside the schoolschool.

On the day of 15 - year - old JROTC member Peter Wang's funeral, hundreds of students from West Boca High School walked about 10 miles to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in honor of the 17 victims.

But today, hundreds of South Florida students have walked out of class and are marching in the streets to demand increased gun - safety laws after 17 students and teachers were shot to death last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Seventeen - minute walkouts also took place at Oswego East High School, where just over 100 of the school's roughly 2,500 students walked out at noon; at Batavia High School, where several hundred of the nearly 2,000 students walked out, a district spokeswoman said; and in St. Charles, where from 150 to 200 students from St. Charles East High School and 27 from St. Charles North left their buildings for 17 minutes, one minute for every person killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said Carol Smith, spokeswoman for School DistricSchool, where just over 100 of the school's roughly 2,500 students walked out at noon; at Batavia High School, where several hundred of the nearly 2,000 students walked out, a district spokeswoman said; and in St. Charles, where from 150 to 200 students from St. Charles East High School and 27 from St. Charles North left their buildings for 17 minutes, one minute for every person killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said Carol Smith, spokeswoman for School Districschool's roughly 2,500 students walked out at noon; at Batavia High School, where several hundred of the nearly 2,000 students walked out, a district spokeswoman said; and in St. Charles, where from 150 to 200 students from St. Charles East High School and 27 from St. Charles North left their buildings for 17 minutes, one minute for every person killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said Carol Smith, spokeswoman for School DistricSchool, where several hundred of the nearly 2,000 students walked out, a district spokeswoman said; and in St. Charles, where from 150 to 200 students from St. Charles East High School and 27 from St. Charles North left their buildings for 17 minutes, one minute for every person killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said Carol Smith, spokeswoman for School DistricSchool and 27 from St. Charles North left their buildings for 17 minutes, one minute for every person killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said Carol Smith, spokeswoman for School DistricSchool, said Carol Smith, spokeswoman for School DistricSchool District 303.