Sentences with phrase «misleading parents»

Last year, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, provided school superintendents with a step - by - step guide on how local school officials should go about misleading parents into believing that they did not have the right to opt their children out of these tests.

Following orders delivered by Malloy's Interim Commissioner of Education Dianna Wentzell, school superintendents are misleading parents into believing they do not have the right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC tests and harassing those who are stepping up and demanding that their children not participate in the testing.

Despite repeated requests that they use today's State Board of Education meeting to instruct Interim Commissioner of Education Wentzell and her senior staff to stop misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test, the state board failed to address the issue in any way what - so - ever.

on More shocking and disturbing reports of Connecticut school officials misleading parents and bullying children on Common Core SBAC testing!

In addition to lying and misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC tests, a disturbing number of school districts are unethically and immorally punishing students who have been opted out of the tests, while some districts are ordering students to «log - in» to the SBAC tests before the schools will honor the parents» directive that their child is not to participate in the tests.

Even if Malloy wasn't committed to implementing the corporate education reform industry agenda, lying and misleading parents is reason enough for voters to refuse to give him a second term in office.

The following is the corrected version of the blog — New Canaan Superintendent joins colleagues in misleading parents

It is bad enough that Malloy is wasting millions of dollars in scarce taxpayer funds to push the Common Core and its unfair «SBAC» Common Core Test, but it is even worse that Malloy and his administration have been lying and misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new 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.

This report reveals that schools across the city are misleading parents by giving students high marks on school coursework even though the students are performing below grade level.

After reading his piece, one can only assume that the proponents of the Common Core; President Obama, Secretary of Education Duncan, Governor Malloy, Commissioner of Education Pryor and Education Gadfly Michele Rhee are either purposefully misleading parents and the public or are incredibly ignorant about the facts.

Dumped some years ago from his post as a copy editor for a news agency owned by the Rev Sun Myung Moon - himself convicted of fraud - Olmsted has since sought a livelihood from his website, misleading parents of children with autism.

However, neither ASDA nor Nestlé are apologetic for being caught out misleading parents and Baby Milk Action is today filing a case against internet advertisements from Nestlé for the same products that make similar claims.

31 July 2014: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld another complaint about Danone misleading parents in its advertising of formula.

Where these products differ from most others is that such advertising can damage the short and long - term health of our children by undermining breastfeeding and misleading parents who bottle feed about what milk to use.

This is something Baby Milk Action would normally welcome and we would expect a strong line to be taken on baby food companies contributing to unnecessary death and suffering by undermining breastfeeding and misleading parents who use formula.

Remember, Baby Milk Action and others have won cases against formula companies misleading parents in their promotion of formula to the public.

An essential element is to bring in laws to stop the multi-billion dollar baby feeding industry misleading parents, idealising their products and getting parents to trust them.

Unfortunately all the tournament, club and camp organizers are misleading parents.

By all means believe that it * might * be harmful, but it isn't accurate to claim that the research supports this; and I don't think it's responsible to mislead parents in the way that this article does.

The mislead parents assumed she would fall asleep she didn't.

She's also made the smear considerably more vague, starting with the title itself, Flaws In Recent Home Birth Research May Mislead Parents, Providers.

They mislead parents and health workers to undermine breastfeeding, inflate prices of infant formula and push products such as follow - on milks and growing - up milks that are described as unnecessary by the World Health Organisation and the NHS.»

This marketing not only undermines breastfeeding, it misleads parents who use formula.

Just like the shoe salesperson, the health ministry misleads parents by making false assumptions about choice.

In spite of its critical importance as the cornerstone of child health and survival, aggressive and inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes, and other food products that compete with breastfeeding, continues to mislead parents and undermine efforts by Member States to protect and support children's rights to health and ensure sound objective information.

See our monitoring reports for examples of how companies mislead parents to boost profits and sell unnecessary products, such as follow - on formula and milks for older babies.

It found its promotion misled parents and it has been warned not to repeat it.

The claims implied babies need to be fed on these expensive milks to receive sufficient nutrients and had already been ruled misleading in October after Baby Milk Action brought complaints about a promotional email sent to members of the ASDA Baby and Toddler Club (see press release ASDA and Nestle misled parents with toddler milk promotion).

Sarah Ockwell - Smith, a psychotherapist, doula, and UK - based author of the soon - to - be published book, «The Gentle Sleep Book: A Guide for Calm Babies, Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers» argues that the erroneous pursuit of a baby that self - soothes profoundly misleads parents.

A nice contrast to the other ridiculous, inexperienced, subjective and highly biased third party testing which on a daily basis mislead parents on what car seats are safest for our children.

In September 2012, Pfizer / Wyeth was found to have misled parents in an SMA advertising campaign in a ruling by the UK Advertising Standards Authority — see press release.

«Pfizer / Wyeth was found to have misled parents in a UK advertising campaign for SMA formula in a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority in September 2012.

A few weeks later, I posted here an exclusive report in which I determined that USDA had significantly misled parents regarding the possible inclusion of Chinese - processed chicken in school meals.

The World Health Assembly calls for an end to promotional claims on foods for infants and young children because they generally mislead parents and undermine independent information from health workers, mother support groups and expert sources such as NHS Choices.

They also misled parents into believing that the regimen was approved to treat autism, according to a 2011 investigation by the Maryland Board of Physicians.

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.

As appalling as Malloy and Pryor's support has been, even worse is the fact that Malloy and his Commissioner of Education have spent countless hours engaged in a campaign to mislead parents into thinking that they do not have the right to opt - out their children from the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test.

Incredulous: Watching CT Department of Education officials lecture school administrators on how to mislead parents

These waivers create a false sense of success that can mislead parents by creating an inaccurate picture.

When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.

In a letter to parents, Principal Rivera utilizes yet another tactic to mislead parents and students explaining,

The Malloy administration's concerted effort to mislead parents into thinking that they lacked the right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a test is just the latest example of his lack of respect for the rights of parents and the importance of local control of public education.

If you know of any situation in which state or local officials are engaged in efforts to bully, harass or mislead parents or students about their opt - out rights or are threatening teachers that they may not provide parents and students with accurate information about the Common Core testing, please get in contact immediately.

And while tens of millions of dollars are being wasted on the massive Common Core Standardized Testing Program, Malloy and his administration have repeatedly lied and misled parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new tests.

At the recent State Department of Education meeting in which a group of school superintendents were instructed on how to mislead parents about their right to opt out of the Common Core SBAC testing scheme, one high ranking employee with the state department of education mocked concerns about the potential misuse of the data collected during the SBAC testing process.

Every Connecticut school administrator is well aware, or should be well aware, that in January 2013 Governor Dannel Malloy's first Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, provided local school officials with a directive explaining how to mislead parents about the Common Core testing and how to make it as difficult as possible for parents to opt their child out of the testing frenzy.

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,

In Connecticut, the SBAC disaster was slowed by a handful of dedicated and committed public school superintendents who recognized that parents had the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the destructive SBAC test, but the majority of local education leaders (and elected officials) kowtowed to the Malloy administration and engaged in an immoral and unethical effort to mislead parents into believing that schools had «no degrees of freedom» on the SBAC testing issue.

Some districts have implemented campaigns to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their children participate in the SBAC tests.