Sentences with phrase «to opt out of standardized tests»

-- Some pockets of the country had substantial numbers of students opting out of standardized tests.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

Support for opting out of standardized testing is mounting.

Meanwhile, school board candidates who support opting out of standardized tests saw success across the state.

A new school year is starting soon, and education officials say they will try to reverse a growing movement of parents having their children opt out of standardized tests.

As a result of this onslaught, a growing opt out of standardized testing movement is taking place across the country.

In other words, state policy determines whether parents can truly opt out of standardized testing.

When several students opt out of standardized tests, how do you communicate these actions to the larger school community?

Sellers, insists, as reformers frequently do, that it is only white, wealthy families who opt out of standardized testing.

Neill said he expected the numbers of students opting out of standardized testing in 2016 to be even higher than the estimated total for 2015, which came in higher than anticipated.

Magee says the union will also be taking steps to convince parents that their children should opt out of standardized tests associated with the controversial Common Core standards.

Professor Daniel Koretz points out that there was a movement in New York City by parents to opt out of standardized testing even before the Common Core.

I am holding an organizational meeting for parents and educators to opt out of standardized testing at Hartford Public High School on Saturday, Feb 1, at 12:00 in my classroom, room 272.

NATIONAL Over 500,000 public school students across the country opted out of standardized tests in 2015.

The mass movement against standardized testing — including over 600,000 families opting out of standardized tests last year — objects to the fact that the average student in the public school system today will take an outlandish 112 standardized tests between pre-K and high school.

Please consider the work of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, which has opted out of standardized tests since 1997 and instead built an assessment system developed, evaluated, and continually revised by actual educators.

According to a 2015 Policy Update issued by the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), 34 states and Washington, D.C., do not permit opting out of standardized testing.

As much as I can understand some of the motivations behind opting out of standardized tests, I think it complicates the goal of helping all students to achieve at higher levels and close long standing academic achievement gaps.

«There is no protection under the First Amendment's freedom of speech for a teacher while on duty for advocating opting out of standardized testing for students.»

Provide that a school and its employees would not be negatively impacted due to a student not taking a state and / or district - level standardized test, such as by ensuring that students who are opted out of standardized tests by a parent or guardian are excluded from performance calculations for state and local accountability measures and from employee evaluations.

Last week, Stephen Sawchuk reported that delegates to this year's NEA Representative Assembly approved a resolution which directs the union to draft model legislative language that would prevent districts from punishing students who opt out of standardized tests.

Governor doesn't expect federal sanctions for school districts with high levels of students opting out of standardized tests.

Though they're both pushing for the same goal — getting more kids to opt out of the standardized tests to be administered this week — parents groups and the teachers union have different motivations.

The 5th Senate district, which includes Suffolk and Nassau counties, has had high levels of students opting out of standardized tests.

One week after 43 percent of eligible students in the Kingston City School District were opted out of standardized tests

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

On Top of the News 20 % of New York State Students Opted Out of Standardized Tests This Year New York Times 8/13/15

Recently, SED has made comments about organized efforts to have parents choose to opt out of standardized tests.

The study showed more than 100 of the bills introduced in 2016 involved either forcing schools to tell parents of their rights to keep their kids from being tested, or giving parents the right to opt out of standardized testing.

Salmon said he's disappointed the framework includes a new pre-K program, consolidates fewer programs than the House's bill and is weaker than the House's language on students» rights to opt out of standardized tests.

Speculating about how many and what kind of students were opting out of standardized tests was a fun education parlor game this spring.

In other findings, a majority of public school parents oppose the closing of «failing» schools and allowing some students to opt out of standardized tests.

After all, homeschoolers have the opportunity to opt out of both standardized testing and curriculum.

The amended platform language encourages parents to opt out of standardized tests, something black and brown urban families rarely choose to do and overwhelmingly oppose, precisely because they want real data about whether or not their children are learning.

She believes that the answer to this outrageous situation is to make it easier for parents to opt out of standardized testing.

Opting out of standardized tests is a popular experience for public school students and many North Haven students did just that when it came time to take the new SBAC test last year.

According to the Washington Post story entitled, Senate rejects plan to allow parents to opt out of standardized tests