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The CEA's efforts to push legislation to phase out the Common Core SBAC testing system is important and appreciated but Connecticut's students, parents and teachers also need the state's largest union to take a public and unequivocal position in support of parents and their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core testing scam.

Parents in Fairfield or any other town that is refusing to provide students who have been opted out of the Common Core testing with a safe, secure and appropriate alternative location in which they can read or do their homework should demand that their school board take immediate steps to force the local superintendent of schools to conduct themselves in a morally, ethically and legally appropriate manner.

He concluded that it was a good thing to see small improvement in the second year of Common Core testing, but that it's going to be a «hard, slow slog» to get the majority of students to the proficient level with only about a third hitting that threshold now.

Karen Magee announced today that the New York Teachers Union was engaging in a campaign to help and support parents who are opting their children out of the Common Core Testing.

Parents throughout Connecticut, and across the nation, continue to inform local school officials that they are opting their children out of the Common Core Testing program because they understandably refuse to have their child take the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory tests.

This weekend, the Massachusetts Teachers Association joined the effort endorsing the fundamental right of parents to opt their children out of the Common Core testing.

The truth is that teachers unions that are supporting parents and their fundamental right to opt their children out of Common Core testing include unions from Washington State and Oregon, all the way across the country to New Jersey and Massachusetts.

The fact is Connecticut's elected officials; the teacher unions and all who believe in public education should be doing far more to support parents who are opting their children out of the Common Core testing.

«Sit and Stare» is an immoral and unethical approach because it seeks to punish, humiliate and bully students whose parents have opted them out of Common Core testing.

The Buffalo Federation of Teachers, the Rochester Teachers Association and more than 120 New York State local teacher unions have also endorsed resolutions supporting the right of parents to opt their children out of the Common Core testing and urging teachers to opt their own children out of the tests.

California is not the only state finding that the first year of Common Core testing reset perceptions of student performance.

Opt them out of the Common Core testing scam.

After months of silence and despite the overwhelming fact that there is no federal or state law that allows the government or school districts to punish children (or parents) who opt their children out of the Common Core Testing Scam, Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education incredibly instructed school superintendents to continue their unethical and immoral harassment of parents who are seeking to protect their children by opting them out of the Common Core SBAC Tests — A test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 Connecticut public school students are deemed failures and that more than 90 percent of special education students and English Language Learners have «fail» attached to their academic records.

Like tens of thousands of parents are doing in New York State, opt your children out of the Common Core testing frenzy.

But proponents of the Common Core testing system like Jennifer Alexander and Governor Malloy won't tell parents that their children will be deemed failing if they don't score at the «high performer» level.

And today DFER stepped forward to speak out against the growing opt - out movement and explained the purpose of the Common Core testing program.

In Montclair, New Jersey parents can opt their children out of the Common Core testing by simply providing their child's name, school, grade and signing a statement which reads

In Connecticut, no one has been more critical of Common Core testing than Connecticut Education Association President Sheila Cohen.

Some towns are reporting that the number of parents opting their students out of the Common Core testing is three times higher than last year when students were told they were taking the SBAC test of a test.

Malloy's Commissioner of Education used the Hartford Courant article to pontificate about the «benefits» of the Common Core testing scheme and the CT Mirror didn't even bother to cover the breaking news at all.

In nearby New York the following list of teacher unions have endorsed resolutions supporting the right of parents to opt out of the Common Core testing.

Do school superintendents follow orders from above and turn their backs on the parents whose fundamental rights can not be abridged or do they stand up and fulfill their moral, ethical, and I would argue legal, responsibility to create healthy, safe and productive learning environments for all of their students, including those whose parents have opted them out of the Common Core testing.

The state of Connecticut has spent more than $ 50 million over the past two years on the sham of Common Core testing.

If Malloy wants a second term, why hasn't he ordered his State Department of Education to be honest with parents (and teachers) and tell parents that they DO HAVE A RIGHT TO OPT THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF THE COMMON CORE TESTING SCHEME and why does he continue to support the implementation of the Common Core and its massive Common Core Testing program?

Parents starting to balk at amount of Common Core Testing.

The debate concerning the implementation of Common Core testing standards is now shifting from policy makers and researchers to an increasing number of parents and teachers.

Since major tax increases are out of the question in many towns, implementing the Common Core Smarter Balanced Testing scheme will come from diverting scarce public money from other instructional activities such as art, music, PE, social studies and academic subjects that are not part of the Common Core testing.

The development of the Common Core testing program in Florida is not unlike the situation in Connecticut.

One of the Common Core testing consortia just revised (upward) its expectations for how long testing will take.

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.

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Another school is reporting that as result of the Common Core testing frenzy, business and graphic art students have been prohibited from using their classroom computers for more than a month during the spring Common Core testing period.

As the Connecticut Common Core SBAC testing disaster continues to disrupt schools across the state over the next two months, parents here should look to the example set by parents in Montclair, New Jersey and opt their children out of the Common Core testing scheme.

In some states, like New York and Kentucky, the percentage of students who met the grade level standard dropped dramatically in the first few years of Common Core testing.

Students in New York sit for up to nine hours of Common Core testing, at the end of the school year, plus interim assessments and practice tests.

Supporters of Common Core testing contend the new PARCC and SBAC tests, coming in the spring of 2015, will do a good job measuring the Common Core standards.

As they do, we are seeing fewer than half of the states sticking to one of the Common Core testing consortia.

I think there's now a one in three chance that we'll look back in a year and say that this story was the beginning of the end of the Common Core testing consortia.

Several teachers attending Monday's event spoke at length about the impact of Common Core testing requirements, saying they result in more «teaching to the test» rather than substantial learning and mastery.

«He has also been a leading voice for banning standardized tests for our youngest students, supported a three - year moratorium against the use of Common Core testing for student promotion and placement, and has backed giving the city and state Comptrollers the power to audit charters, particularly charter practices that limit the enrollment and retention of high - needs students.»

The regulation — proposed by the U.S. Department of Education — would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Another round of Common Core testing will be held Wednesday across the state.

Sources said a deal to delay the impact of the Common Core testing on students — but not the teacher evaluation process — for two years has been agreed to.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

Long Island appeared on the threshold of cementing its place as the epicenter of the opt - out movement statewide, with tens of thousands of students refusing to take the state's English language arts exam on the first day of Common Core testing, a Newsday survey showed.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Locally, Charles Russo, superintendent of East Moriches schools, was one of the few educators to speak in favor of Common Core testing at forums that featured then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., held last year and in late 2013.

Author of Common Core Parental Refusal Act says Assembly Majority bill falls short by not requiring schools to notify parents of their rights to opt their kids out of Common Core tests

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.