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Maine Students Warned Assessment Opt-Out May Cost Graduation

June 3, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

The Bangor Daily News reports that the Maine Education Commissioner says students who opt-out of Smarter Balanced may not graduate.

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: 2015 Bills, common core assessments, Maine, parental opt out, Smarter Balanced

Illinois House Passes Parental Opt-Out Bill

May 20, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

The Illinois House on Tuesday voted 64 to 47 in favor of a bill that give parents a “formal way” to opt-out their students out of assessments.

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: 2015 Bills, Bruce Rauner, HB 306, Illinois, Illinois House of Representatives, PARCC, parental opt out, parental rights, Will Guzzardi

Lee County Schools in Florida Votes to Opt-Out of State Mandated Testing

August 28, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

The Lee County School Board voted last night 3-2 to opt their students out of state-mandated testing.  Lee County is in SW Florida and includes the city of Fort Myers.  They are the first school district in Florida to push back against an out-of-control assessment culture in the state that includes means-testing kindergarteners. A local […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: common core assessments, FCAT, Lee County Schools (Florida), parental opt out, standardized testing

Parents Are Not Helpless

June 3, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

Laurie H. Rogers yesterday wrote a piece entitled “The Myth of the Helpless Parent,”  she discussed how schools impress upon students “I can” statements, but that parents need to vocalize “we can” statements in light of schools that sometimes lack accountability and abuse our trust. We need to remember that we, as parents, are not […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Laurie H. Rogers, parental opt out, school choice, student data collection

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