Sentences with phrase «kids out of state tests»

Didn't he support the testing mania that has led to hundreds of thousands of parents keeping their kids out of state testing programs?

While newspapers are reporting on parents who are opting their kids out of state testing, students in Brooklyn who attend Uncommon Schools charters are gearing up for the tests in «wacky and joyful» ways.

Not exact matches

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says parents absolutely have the right to opt their kids out of state standardized tests, but she says she still wants to talk to them to try to bring them back into the fold.

He added that Cuomo called for an education reboot because parents sent a «clear statement» they were troubled by having their kids opt out of the state tests that were to be tied to the teacher evaluations.

No Child Left Behind makes it essentially impossible for states to test kids on «out of grade level» material, a policy intended to prevent the tests from being «dumbed down» for low achievers.

Unfortunately for them, one - off state tests don't yield comparable results, and discrepant proficiency bars are much of what went wrong with NCLB — so the drop - out states that devise their own assessments still won't know how their kids and schools compare with those in other states or with the nation as a whole or whether their high school graduates are indeed college ready.

Al Graf (R - Holbrook), president of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association Beth Dimino, co-founder of Stop Common Core in New York State Yvonne Gasperino, Michael Bohr, the founder of advocate group Badass Parents, and upstate principal Tim Farley, and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the newly announced Republican gubernatorial candidate running on the anti-Common Core platform — whose own kids have opted out of taking the tests.

How the tests get used also varies widely in terms of how much states break out student test scores by subgroups of different kinds of kids, according to Lovell.

At the same time, I believe that it is appropriate for states to debate this question, and we should expect some states to pull out, especially once the testing starts, and we — as we expect — if the test scores come out and kids do much worse on these new tests than the old tests, then there's going to be huge political pressure for some other states to pull out and it won't be the end of the world.

In some states, particularly New York, parents have been «opting out» of standardized tests in significant numbers, saying they're a waste of kids» and teachers» time.

Not that the latter is shocking; two months ago, state officials sought approval from the administration to delay using the evaluation system in rewarding high - quality teachers and sacking laggards, as well as to exempt kids taking trial versions of Common Core reading and math tests being rolled out in the next couple of years from having to take the current battery of state exams.

For obvious reasons, I won't identify her or where she teaches, but — shockingly — her story is becoming all too common... «We had a union meeting yesterday where they warned us that the governor is going after the certificates of teachers that opted out their kids (of the state tests).

(One reader wrote that NYC parents don't opt - out because their kids need the tests to get into better city schools but outcomes on the state standardized tests are not part of the admissions process.)