As Wendy Lecker explains in her column entitled, «Opting out, parents answer to a higher authority,» the Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and the Malloy administration are
telling local school superintendents, principals and teachers that they are to instruct parents that their child MUST take Connecticut's standardized tests and MUST take the new poorly designed and unfair Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test.
Not exact matches
Tell the
local media, the
superintendent, and the
school board.
After making headlines as Georgia's
superintendent of
schools for eight years, Linda C. Schrenko seems to have finally
told the
local news media how she really feels about them — and may be more popular for it.
But
Local District Central
Superintendent Roberto Martinez
told LA
School Report that he thought the meeting went very well and that they answered many of the parents» concerns.
«I don't think large is inherently bad,» CMS
Superintendent Clayton Wilcox
told Policy Watch Wednesday, hours after a legislative study committee dominated by Republicans convened to consider whether students in mammoth districts like CMS and Wake County
Schools, the state's largest
school system, would be better served by smaller districts piloted by
local municipalities.
UPDATE 12:50 p.m.: Two days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School, Broward
School Superintendent Robert Runcie
told local reporters that no student will walk back into the building where the shooting took place.
For parents with younger children, it means
telling their
local superintendent and board of education that they must take immediate steps to distance
schools from the harmful effects of the testing and assessment frenzy.
«Many people have been killed,» US Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat,
told local media, and a
school superintendent later also said there had been «numerous fatalities,» although it is not yet clear how many people have been killed in the shooting.