Sentences with phrase «parents about the fundamentals»

Parents of public school students in a number of Connecticut school districts continue to report that there are superintendents and principals who are not only misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their child participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and / or the NEW SAT, but are actually telling parents that it is «illegal» for them to opt their child or children out of these tests.

And while tens of millions of dollars are being wasted on the massive Common Core Standardized Testing Program, Malloy and his administration have repeatedly lied and misled parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new tests.

It is bad enough that Malloy is wasting millions of dollars in scarce taxpayer funds to push the Common Core and its unfair «SBAC» Common Core Test, but it is even worse that Malloy and his administration have been lying and misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new tests.

Some districts have implemented campaigns to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their children participate in the SBAC tests.

In addition, the Malloy administration has repeatedly lied and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new tests.

Today brought additional reports that a small group of Connecticut superintendents, principals and other school administrators continue to mislead and lie to parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC test or are engaging in bullying and harassment of students and parents who have decided to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

Although Malloy and the Department of Education spent nearly two years lying and misleading Connecticut parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC testing madness, nearly half of the students in Sherman's school were opted out of the SBAC testing last spring, making it the elementary school with the highest opt out rates in the state and among Connecticut's 25 top schools when it came to the percent of students being opted out.

In addition to lying and misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC tests, a disturbing number of school districts are unethically and immorally punishing students who have been opted out of the tests, while some districts are ordering students to «log - in» to the SBAC tests before the schools will honor the parents» directive that their child is not to participate in the tests.

Despite repeated requests that they use today's State Board of Education meeting to instruct Interim Commissioner of Education Wentzell and her senior staff to stop misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test, the state board failed to address the issue in any way what - so - ever.

before, despite the fact that parents can and should consider opting their children out of the unfair, discriminatory and inappropriate Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme that begins next month, Governor Malloy and his administration are failing to inform parents about their fundamental right to protect their children from these abusive tests.

Wentzell has led the Malloy Administration's continuing effort to mislead and lie to Connecticut parents about the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

While Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testing scam.

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To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

«There is much cant about protecting the rights of children but, as Pope John Paul II said, the right of a child to be brought up under one roof by its natural parents should be seen as one of the most fundamental of all human rights.

As a pediatrician who was frustrated by how many parents failed to find help using CIO, I did extensive research and even have published an ebook about this important subject (When «Crying it Out» Doesn't Work, by Mary Kathleen Fay, M.D.) I think the fundamental problem is that for CIO to work, the child must be completely healthy and sleeping normally once they fall asleep.

The instructors are trying to give parents practical information about immunization and safety — but at the same time, they're trying to change their minds about some pretty fundamental questions about parenting.

Programme Manager Bev Alden says: «Helping prisoners who are fathers, or about to become fathers, to understand their role as parents and to learn essential parenting skills, is fundamental to our work.

The assumption that Danny wouldn't even consider being the stay - at - home parent — all other things equal — captures the prevailing nature of existing norms about parenting and the need for a fundamental shift in perspective.

For the home piece, we talk about parenting — where we focus on the Fundamental Five early - childhood caregiving practices and on school - age interventions — and about parent engagement, or what schools can do to build community with families.

These fundamental requirements are consistent with long - standing Head Start philosophy about the importance of parents in the Head Start mission.

But the scene Thursday night at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater, where the film was screened, underscored the film's fundamental point about parents» apolitical dedication to educating their kids.

(T) he report never treats seriously the substantive concerns of resistant parents; it never questions the fundamental strategy that it proposes communicating about....

In addition to what LeCesne called the «fundamental fairness issue» of withholding a benefit the school has earned, a five - year renewal will raise questions about the school's viability with not only potential donors and lenders, but also parents and possible faculty members.

The article also provides two sections with related information: 1) a «glossary of testing terms,» which explains fundamentals of standardized tests and how these tests will be used in the context of new federal legislation (the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002) which requires states to give standardized tests annually, analyze data in specific ways, and track progress toward a required goal; and 2) «frequently asked questions about standardized testing,» which addresses many of parents» concerns about how standardized tests may be used with and affect their children.

While clarifying the First Amendment rights of teachers, Connecticut's teacher unions should also join their fellow unions from around the country in making it extremely clear that the union will aggressively fight any efforts by a school district to harass, discipline or terminate any teacher who speaks out about a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core tests.

Although a fair and equitable choice system should have the objective to create the conditions for all parents to make informed decisions about where their children attend school (Cookson, 1994), one is forced to recognize that social class and parent education play a fundamental role in succeeding in the school choice process.

Family Dog talks about almost anything and everything that will make you a better pet parent, including training fundamentals, ensuring your pooch's optimum mental development, canine play and relaxation, communicating with our pooches, grooming, nutrition, canine first - aid, and a whole lot more.

At Protective and Costco, we believe in a few fundamental parenting truths, which often have little to do with the things you worry about from day to day.

Prior to the new millennium, parents» composite knowledge about their adolescents» friends, activities, and whereabouts (i.e., parental monitoring knowledge) was the fundamental factor studied for its inverse association with adolescent risk involvement [1 — 3].