Sentences with phrase «opposing high stakes testing»

There were numerous resolutions opposing high stakes testing passed by the Washington State Education Association state meeting on April 25 2015.

This disproportionate racial impact is why there's a long history of civil - rights lawsuits opposing high stakes testing.

Not exact matches

«As everyone knows, our union is opposed to high - stakes testing and value - added model, but even when MaryEllen applied it as required under Florida law, she made collaboration her mantra,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

The session, at Spackenkill High School, was filled with parents and teachers opposed to King's policy agenda, including the state's rush to the Common Core standards, high - stakes Common Core tests and teacher and principal evaluations tied to those teHigh School, was filled with parents and teachers opposed to King's policy agenda, including the state's rush to the Common Core standards, high - stakes Common Core tests and teacher and principal evaluations tied to those tehigh - stakes Common Core tests and teacher and principal evaluations tied to those tests.

Consistent with his party's platform, Hawkins opposes fracking, favors heavier taxes on the rich, criticizes high - stakes public school testing and calls for a return to state revenue - sharing to relieve property taxes.

They oppose high - stakes testing of students, teachers, and schools that, they say, is intended to fail schools in disadvantaged communities and privatize them into union - free, unregulated charter schools.

Hawkins supports fully funding public schools and opposes Cuomo's push for high stakes testing, charter schools, and centralized control of the education system.

Betty Rosa, the new Regents chancellor, justifies it all as opposing what she and the teachers unions call «high - stakes tests,» which supposedly just ruin the whole educational process.

I am a principal in Texas of one of the first grade 3 - 6 TEA approved Public school Virtual Academy - I would like some pointers when discussing accountability with potential parents who are opposed to high stakes testing and love our school this year but would rather their child not participate in the STAAR testing required by TEA.

It's now opposed to high - stakes testing and the use of test scores in teacher evaluations.

And only if that system holds all teachers responsible for results (as opposed to only those administering high - stakes testing in four of the twelve years of schooling) can it improve.

Even today, the AFT continues to lend some support to standards - based reform, while the NEA has opposed high - stakes testing, supported parents who boycott tests, and funded researchers to try to undermine standards - based reform.

And only if the assessment system holds all teachers responsible for results can the system improve (as opposed to high - stakes testing in four of the twelve years of schooling).

More than 125 districts passed resolutions opposing high - stakes tests tied to teacher evaluations.

We oppose high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing, the use of standardized test scores as basis for refusing to fund schools or to close schools, and the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.

«Democrats amended the platform to: support community schools with wraparound services in struggling neighborhoods; implement restorative justice and alternative discipline practices; invest in engaging STEM curricula; explicitly oppose high - stakes testing as a means to close schools or evaluate educators; support a parents» right to opt their children out of tests; and support and respect all educators and school employees.

It sure is, say local opt - out activists, who oppose so - called school reform measures — including high - stakes tests used to evaluate teachers — that they say are designed to foster private alternatives and ultimately dismantle public education.

Teaching unions are opposed to the Sats tests and some boycotted them three years ago, saying that they forced teachers to «teach to the test», marking was unreliable and the results were too «high - stakes» because of the league tables.

And while many people oppose high - stakes testing, few offer concrete proposals for other ways of measuring student progress.

The move follows years of pressure from teachers, parents and educationalists opposed to putting young pupils through high stakes national Sats tests.

The Brookline Educators Association (BEA) supports high standards and accountability but opposes the use of a single high - stakes test to make life altering decisions about students, teachers, schools or school systems.

«This is not true parent empowerment,» said Leonie Haimson, founding member of Parents Across America, which opposes school privatization and high - stakes testing.

«If you're going to wean school administrations away from focusing on the SBAC score as opposed to formative tests throughout the school year that identify the specific needs of the student, then you've got to stop treating SBAC like a high - stakes test that not only goes potentially to teacher evaluation, but to administrator evaluation, and to school ranking.

United Opt Out National, a group devoted to eliminating high - stakes testing in public education, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Education).

We believe that students and educators who are opposed to such high - stakes tests should not be forced to participate in their implementation.

In an unexpected move, Democrats have revised the K - 12 education section of their party's 2016 platform in important ways, backing the right of parents to opt their children out of high - stakes standardized tests, qualifying support for charter schools, and opposing using test scores for high - stakes purposes to evaluate teachers and students.

These advocates eschew fixes that divert public money to the private education sector, and oppose high - stakes testing in favor of multiple assessments to measure accountability and success.

The Palm Beach County board, like many other school boards, passed a resolution in 2012 opposing high - stakes testing, but it had little effect.

Given the lack of proven links between testing and achievement, as well as extensive evidence about the limitations and problems of high - stakes testing, Parents Across America opposes current efforts to expand the use of standardized tests.

Over the years, PAA has opposed school policies and practices such as grade retention, high - stakes standardized testing

As Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, noted on one of her blog posts today, «one of the crucial elements in the grassroots movement to roll back the tide of high - stakes testing started in Texas, when school board after school board voted to oppose high - stakes testing, and eventually more than 80 % of the state's school boards voted against high - stakes testing.»

Over the years, PAA has opposed school policies and practices such as grade retention, high - stakes standardized testing, and mass school closings.

Opt Out Groups and Common Core Opponents Oppose Senate Bill to Reauthorization NCLB Parents and teachers have long awaited the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), with the reasonable expectation that the onerous provisions of federally mandated, high - stakes testing would be removed.

This teacher asked that her name and school be omitted from this report because of the hostile environment that the Seattle School district has created in issuing threats to teachers who oppose high - stakes testing.

From refusal and opting out to protests and organizing letter - writing campaigns, section five, «Resisting and Responding to High - Stakes Testing,» takes a look at a wide range of efforts teachers, students, and communities have employed to oppose the testing Testing,» takes a look at a wide range of efforts teachers, students, and communities have employed to oppose the testing testing regime.

The platform also calls for charter schools to retain proportionate numbers of students from a range of subgroups, including ELLs, and opposes «high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing.»

This turnover has been exacerbated by measures such as the expansion of high - stakes testing and the denigration of teaching professionals, which are championed by the «corporate reform» movement but opposed by most parents.

Using any standardized achievement test for a purpose for which it was not designed violates nationally - accepted standards of the testing profession, of the state of Illinois and the U. S. Department of Education, and the guidelines of the test makers themselves (see Attachment 2 — PURE Fact Sheet: «Testing professionals oppose use of standardized test scores as sole or primary measures in high - stakes decisions&rtesting profession, of the state of Illinois and the U. S. Department of Education, and the guidelines of the test makers themselves (see Attachment 2 — PURE Fact Sheet: «Testing professionals oppose use of standardized test scores as sole or primary measures in high - stakes decisions&rTesting professionals oppose use of standardized test scores as sole or primary measures in high - stakes decisions»).

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More specifically, we will support candidates who oppose high - stakes testing, mass school closures, the privatization of our public schools and the outsourcing of its core functions to for - profit corporations, and we will support candidates who work for evidence - based reforms that will improve our schools and the education of our nation's children.