Sentences with phrase «out of state exams»

This also means there would be no penalty for parents and students who opted out of the state exams.

Meanwhile, test refusal groups still are calling for parents to opt their children out of state exams as well as the local tests used in teacher evaluations.

Fair Test's Neill said the state of New York led the way regarding the revolt against standardized testing with nearly half a million students opting out of state exams in 2015.

Pennsylvania allows students to opt out of state exams for religious reasons only.

The process — which one critical administrator likened to the centuries - old Inquisition — comes on the eve of 2016 state testing, when families are once again deciding whether to pull their kids out of state exams.

In Kansas, for example, a school district just this month got a first - of - its - kind waiver to use its own standards and tests, opting out of state exams for its oldest students.

What that action would be was not spelled out, but the inquiry itself spurred a backlash from families who support allowing students to opt out of state exams.

Governor Cuomo is so enamored with hedge fund money that he has refused to consider the educational research; listen to educational professionals; or acknowledge the concerns of tens of thousands of parents who are so angry about his testing madness, they are protecting their children by opting them out of state exams.

If the state allows some parents the right to opt out of state exams, it MUST give ALL parents this right, and consequences to schools and districts across the state must be equitable.»

Parents in northwest Washington state organized a boycott this spring and kept hundreds of children out of state exams.