Sentences with phrase «out of taking the test»

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.

More than 50 % of parents have opted their students out of taking the test, and 30 teachers and staff refused to administer the exam citing professional and ethical concerns.

«Because 220,000 opted out of taking these tests because their parents have rejected the governor's test and punish agenda, there's little meaningful we can read into these tests at all,» said NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn.

In the spring of 2015, tens of thousands of students in New Jersey and other states opted out of taking the tests altogether.

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 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.

They classified more students as disabled to get them out of taking the tests.

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.

More than 700 students, or about 7 percent, of elementary and middle school students in Madison opted out of taking the tests, compared to about 2 percent statewide.

I support school choice, but I do not think we should give parents the right to opt - out of taking tests.

Some states allow students to opt out of taking the tests, presumably again, to reduce time spent taking tests.