The parents of over 55,000 students
opted out of taking the tests this year, including the children of the Republican candidate for governor, Rob Astorino.
Students with lower scores on the test last year were more likely to
opt out of taking the test this year than students with higher scores.
In the spring of 2015, tens of thousands of students in New Jersey and other states
opted out of taking the tests altogether.
At the end of the year, some of Papa's students were tested while others
opted out of taking the tests.
Al Graf (R - Holbrook), president of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association Beth Dimino, co-founder of Stop Common Core in New York State Yvonne Gasperino, Michael Bohr, the founder of advocate group Badass Parents, and upstate principal Tim Farley, and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the newly announced Republican gubernatorial candidate running on the anti-Common Core platform — whose own kids have
opted out of taking the tests.
The increased price tag comes at a time when states are preparing their students for new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards and an effort by local GOP lawmakers to diminish the standards and offer schools a way to
opt out of taking the tests picked by the state.
The Common Core - aligned tests are required for all 11th graders, unless their parents give them permission to
opt out of taking the test.
Not exact matches
Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead
of pasting a bunch
of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot
of people don't
take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just
take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead
of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch
of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample
test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would
take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods
taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method
of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can
take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots
of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools
out there you can get hundreds
of thousands
of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an
opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top
of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to
take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
With the state English and math
tests looming next month,
opt -
out movement advocates are predicting even higher numbers
of students who
take a pass than last year.
«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and schools from being penalized for
opting out of the
tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children
take these developmentally inappropriate high stakes
tests.»
School administrators are closely watching a letter campaign that's
taking place in the days before school starts that could lead to even more children
opting out of state standardized
tests.
But nearly one fifth
of students across New York
opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math
tests, which are administered to third to eighth graders.
In the area's two state Senate races — seats currently held by Republicans George Amedore and Hugh Farley — all
of the candidates during interviews last week
took swipes
of some kind at the controversial education standards and state
tests that drew an over 20 percent
opt -
out rate for the second straight year this spring.
Senator Stewart Cousins, who has not
taken a position on whether parents should
opt their children
out of the
tests, spoke on the subject earlier this year.
The newly elected Chancellor to the Board
of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use
of standardized
tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board
of Regents, she would join the
opt out movement and not permit her children to
take the
tests.
But nearly one fifth
of students across New York
opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math
tests, which are administered to third to eight graders.
Educators on Long Island say the number
of students and parents
opting -
out of taking standardized state
tests this week is growing.
The Buffalo School Board has decided to review its admissions policies at two
of the district's most sought - after schools — City Honors and Olmsted 156 — after some parents complained that the present formula penalizes students who
opted out of taking state
tests.
While admitting that the rollout
of the Common Core was a mistake, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would not
opt his three girls
out of state
tests if they were younger and eligible to
take them.
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.
According to Jeanette Deutermann, founder
of Long Island
Opt -
Out, that's because parents in other areas don't know their children don't have to
take the
test.
But nearly one - fifth
of students across New York state
opted out of taking the English exams when they were given last week, and more plan to skip the math
tests.
To kill the ratings system, the unions
took aim at the
tests themselves — with a vast fear - mongering campaign to convince parents to
opt their kids
out of the
test.
Not satisfied with a state Board
of Regents decision to put a hold on the use
of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to
opt out of local exams that will be
taking the place
of standardized, Common Core - aligned
tests used to evaluate teachers.
The newly elected chancellor
of the Board
of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use
of standardized
tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board
of Regents, she would join the
opt -
out movement and not permit her children to
take the
tests.
As for last year's
testing opt -
outs, Farrell said the district saw only a small percentage
of students refuse to
take the state
tests despite low class sizes which easily skew the data.
An analysis
of local news reports and school district data by The New York Times found that at least one
out of every six students eligible to
take the third - through eighth - grade
tests in New York State sat at least one
of them
out this past school year, part
of the so - called
opt out movement.
A growing number
of parents are withdrawing their children from the annual state
tests; the epicenter
of the «
opt -
out» movement may be New York State, where as many as 90 percent
of students in some districts reportedly refused to
take the year - end examination last spring.
Perhaps the most surprising result
of the analysis, reported in the figure below, is that the modest positive correlation between
test scores and
opt -
out seen in the table above becomes negative once free / reduced lunch is
taken into account.
According to the New York Times, the
opt -
out movement more than doubled the number
of students who did not
take federally mandated math and English Language Arts (ELA)
tests, with 165,000 kids — about one in six — not
taking at least one
of the
tests.
She found that, in states with the largest number
of students
opting out of state
tests, the students
opting out were mostly white and affluent, and that a large percentage
of students
opting out were 11th graders who were also
taking college prep and AP exams in the spring.
7) Both parents and the public as a whole remain supportive
of testing and opposed to policies that would allow parents to withhold their children from state
test -
taking, but support for parental
opt -
out has gained ground among teachers.
The PARCC consortium: Figure
out a way for schools to
opt out of the through - course assessments and
take a single end -
of - year
test instead.
In Louisiana, for example, less than 1 percent
of those
taking the
tests have
opted out.
In 2014, a year prior to NYSUT's endorsement
of test refusal, approximately 60,000 students
opted out of taking the state exams.
There is no doubt that there was a rocky transition with the Common Core and the aligned
tests, but instead
of joining a productive debate and coming together with solutions,
opt -
out activists have
taken unilateral action.
Statewide, only 1 percent
of students have
opted out of testing, but a very vocal set
of parents in San Diego and Marin County have refused to let their children
take the state
test.
West Seneca, which had one
of the highest ELA
opt -
out rates in the state the last two years with 71 and 73 percent, had a small drop, with 68 percent
of students refusing to
take the
tests Tuesday, according to Jonathan Dalbo, director
of instructional technology and social studies.
In her school district, 79 percent
of students did not
take the
tests, one
of the highest
opt -
out rates in the state.
In East Aurora, 280 students, or 35 percent,
of those
taking the
tests opted out Tuesday.
In addition to probably not capturing everything that we want
out of schools, we should also
take into account that it appears that more and more families are
opting into private schooling to get away from schools that they think are obsessed with standardized
testing.
And finally and perhaps most importantly FairTest, explains that it is, «not aware
of a single school that lost federal Title I funds due to low
test -
taking rates, including many in New York that had large numbers
of opt outs last year.»
Senator Stewart Cousins, who has not
taken a position on whether parents should
opt their children
out of the
tests, spoke on the subject earlier this year.
FairTest is not aware
of a single school that lost federal Title I funds due to low
test -
taking rates, including many in New York that had large numbers
of opt outs last year.
When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for
opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC
test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to
take a
test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized
tests.
Opt -
out numbers have soared; in some school districts, more students (grades 3 through 8) were
opted out of the
testing than the students who
took the
tests.
And in New Jersey, as in Connecticut, school districts have not only tried to stop parents from
opting their children
out of the
tests but have then withheld information about how many parents are actually refusing to allow their children to
take the destructive Common Core
tests.
Parents need to start this revolution by
opting out their children from state
testing programs in order to
take back public education from the corporate reformers who are destroying the education
of our children.
Here is the description
of Opt Out Orlando
taken from their site: «
Opt Out Orlando advocates for multiple measures
of authentic assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes standardized
tests (Iowa
Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement
Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction
of their students and which do not result in punitive consequences for students, teachers and schools.
School by school, parent by parent, district by district, those questions will be explored now that Connecticut has completed its first year
of SBAC
testing, and, if we can judge by what is happening in New York where implementation
of the Common Core and the
taking of a Common Core aligned
test is a year ahead
of Connecticut, it seems reasonable to believe that
opting -
out will increase.