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Feds to Colorado: You must count students who opt out of standardized tests chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/...

Last week, Stephen Sawchuk reported that delegates to this year's NEA Representative Assembly approved a resolution which directs the union to draft model legislative language that would prevent districts from punishing students who opt out of standardized tests.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

Sellers, insists, as reformers frequently do, that it is only white, wealthy families who opt out of standardized testing.

Not exact matches

That includes Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa, who has said she would opt her children out of standardized tests and was among the first to issue a statement condemning Paladino for his remarks.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York's congressional delegation to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from carrying out a threat to sanction New York schools as punishment for the hundreds of thousands of students who opted - out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests this month.

She has been active in NYC Opt Out and Change the Stakes, a grassroots coalition of parents, teachers and community members who are concerned with the destructive use of high - stakes standardized testing.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Meanwhile, school board candidates who support opting out of standardized tests saw success across the state.

The state's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams because they will be different than last year's tests.

In recent years, as many as 20 percent of students across the state opted out of these tests, led by parents and teachers who criticized the way the state handled standardized testing.

Pellegrino, a West Islip resident and leader in Long Island's «opt - out» movement against standardized student testing, is facing Conservative Tom Gargiulo of Babylon, a retired teacher and coach who also has the backing of Republicans and the Independence Party.

New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.

But testing opposition appears to be more closely linked to concerns about teacher evaluation policies: the top two reasons chosen among a national survey of parents who opted out were, «I oppose using students» performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers» and «standardized tests force teachers to teach to the test.»

The statistic not only showed the growing strength of the «opt out» movement against standardized testing, but also put immediate pressure on state and federal officials, who must now decide whether to penalize schools and districts with low participation rates.

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As someone who has been a conscientious objector of high stakes standardized tests and is actively involved in the opt out campaign in our state, the decoupling of standardized tests scores from the teacher evaluation does not get at the root of the issues.

In the above article Chalkbeat focused on how some district practices, in Boulder specifically, discouraged high school students from taking state standardized tests: for the second year in a row, Boulder high schools continued instruction for ninth - grade students who opted - out of PARCC assessments, effectively penalizing students who took the state assessments as they had to catch up on the content later (1).

Anthony Griffin, the life - sized pencil and co-founder of Lace to the Top, a group of advocates who display bright green shoelaces to convey their message that kids are more than test scores, believes that Standardized provides the answer: to opt - out of the tests.

Volunteer activists in the test resistance movement who formed United Opt Out in 2011 have become so disruptive to the standardized testing establishment that their website was recently «hacked into and destroyed — along with a great deal of their web - based educational tools,» according to a report at Alternet, including «years of research, with an archive of guides and tutorials for opting out tailored specifically to almost every U.S. state.&raqOut in 2011 have become so disruptive to the standardized testing establishment that their website was recently «hacked into and destroyed — along with a great deal of their web - based educational tools,» according to a report at Alternet, including «years of research, with an archive of guides and tutorials for opting out tailored specifically to almost every U.S. state.&raqout tailored specifically to almost every U.S. state.»

I've got a friend in New York who wants me to call on every parent in America to Opt Out of state mandated standardized tests which are, of course, the mother's milk of the No Child Left Untested federal testing feeding frenzy.

But as directed by a memo released by Commissioner Pryor's office last December, Connecticut superintendents are being told to mislead, even lie, to any parents who seek to opt their children out of Connecticut's misguided standardized testing fiasco.

Shelton Connecticut Superintendent of Schools Freeman Burr is sending a letter to parents who seek to opt their children out of Connecticut's standardized testing scheme.

What's next for parents who've led the charge to opt their children out of standardized tests?

In Shelton, public school parents who inform their school that they are opting out their children from the standardized testing are getting a letter from Superintendent Freeman explaining that, «Shelton Public Schools have no degrees of freedom in this matter.

Around the country, parents who object to standardized testing are publicly discussing the idea of «opting out,» either by keeping their children at home on test dates or by permitting them to abstain from testing.

Maybe I'm just an über - geek, but the findings of the study show that standardized testing has no correlation to success in higher education (in fact there are many indicators that those opting out of the SAT / ACT, myself included did much better academically than those who took the tests).

As Governor Malloy, Commissioner Pryor and public school superintendents know, Connecticut law fails to provide for ANY penalties or punishment for parents who opt their children out of these inaccurate and unfair standardized tests.

Since the parents of all students in public schools were discouraged from opting their children out of this state - mandated «standardized» test experiment, it should be gratifying to those who saw through the misinformation and controversy associated with the Common Core testing requirement and, with courage and conviction, refused to allow their children to take this unnecessary and unproven test.