This unprecedented development was the direct result of a growing awareness by parents, students, teachers and public education advocates that the
standardized testing scheme isn't useful and that the Corporate Education Reform Industry is turning public schools into little more
than testing factories.
This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the
standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more
than testing factories and profit centers.