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Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook), Assemblyman Dean Murray (R,C,I - East Patchogue) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), today took their efforts to the next level to inform parents of their rights to have their children refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests by launching a new statewide petition drive: RefuseCommonCore.com.

New York City schools and a handful of districts statewide have used the standardized tests under Common Core for grades 3 through 8 as a factor in promoting students to the next grade.

Next spring, New York's students will spend two days on standardized math and English tests instead of three.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Within the next two years, students in these same states will face a slate of new standardized tests aligned to these Common Core Standards.

Duncan on Tuesday announced that schools that do the field test for the new Common Core assessment next spring can get a one - year waiver from also giving current state standardized tests required by federal law.

States have joined those two standardized testing groups to give exams on Common Core standards — West Virginia is set to give a Smarter Balanced version for the first time this spring, though the state will delay, for at least this school year and the next, labeling schools with its new A-F grading system, which is based in part on the test.

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And it is set to jump 40 percent next year, to $ 52 million, as the state rolls out new standardized tests for every core high school course, from geometry to literature.

Back in 2012, Arizona State Board of Education President Jaime Molera announced that Arizona would abandon the state's standardized testing assessment, AIMS, for a new next generation K - 12 assessment: PARCC.

And, Fletcher said, the program's key measure of student achievement — known as Academic Growth Over Time — is based on state standardized tests that will be phased out in the next few years as California moves toward a new national curriculum and assessments.

Fortunately, in addition to tracking the performance of all students on mathematics and English Language Arts standardized tests, the new accountability system and the LCAP also look at English learners» progress toward English language proficiency — tracking progress from one level to the next on California's English language proficiency test.

«So we will phase in... next year it will be Kindergarten, first grade and then K - 2, and they have to take the first standardized test, we will have prepared them for several years for the new standards.»

And now, preparations for the next school year are underway, with top officials opening up bids for new standardized testing vendors and contracts.

California officials reject federal government's push to administer old science tests California education officials have decided that students will take only one statewide standardized test in science this spring, a pilot test based on new standards known as the Next Generation Science Standards.