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In state's across the nation, public teachers are stepping forward and risking their jobs to say enough is enough and that the massive and inappropriate Common Core Testing Scheme has got to be stopped before it unfairly defines an entire generation of children as failures.

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?

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.

-- 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.

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 tests.

For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.

Not exact matches

With the release last week of half of the test questions from the most recent round of New York State Common Core ELA / Literacy and math tests, we can now begin to see if the tests are, as one New York principal insisted last spring, «confusing, developmentally inappropriate and not well aligned with the Common Core standards.»

Being that the information presented below is academic, fact - based and intellectual, some elected officials won't take the time to read it or perhaps understand it, but the information confirms what has been understood and discussed by opponents of the Common Core SBAC testing and other inappropriate standardized testing schemes.

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.

Malloy's «education reform» bill is the driving force behind the Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system — a legislative package that passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 149 - 0.

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.

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.

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.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers were paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop the Common Core standards and the unfair and inappropriate Common Core standardized testing scheme that goes along with those so - called standards.

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.

They have sought to consistently and fully implement Malloy's inappropriate and unfair Common Core, Common Core Testing and teacher evaluation education reforms.

Malloy also proposed massive amounts of new Common Core standardized testing for all public school students and tied his modest funding increases for poor schools to inappropriate privatization strategies.

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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.

Just as Bridgeport school superintendent Fran Rabinowitz works to get some of Bridgeport's school administrators to stop their inappropriate abuse of students and parents who have opted out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing program, the spotlight shifts to Stamford where the principal of Stamford's Academy of Information Technology & Engineering Magnet School has ramped up the harassment of students and parents.

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.

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.

There are so many stories that I could tell — the story of my guidance counselor's sixth - grade, learning disabled child who feels like a failure due to constant testing, a principal of an elementary school who is furious with having to use to use a book he deems inappropriate for third graders because his district bought the State Education Department approved common core curriculum, and the frustration of math teachers due to the ever - changing rules regarding the use of calculators on the tests.

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.

In the real world that policy is known as «sit and stare» and is typically seen as a way to punish and humiliate students while creating unnecessary resentment from those students who will be sitting there for the eight to eight and a half hours of inappropriate Common Core SBAC testing.

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.

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

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.

Even the AFT and CEA have admitted that Governor Malloy's 2012 Corporate Education Reform Industry Initiative sought to eliminate tenure for all public school teachers in Connecticut and replace it with a system of short - term contracts in which continued employment as a teacher would depend, in part, on the test scores teachers» students got on the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Standardized 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.

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,

BEWARE: 9 in 10 Children who utilize special education services will fail the inappropriate Common Core SBAC Test

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.

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.

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.