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U.S. Senate Votes Down Parental Opt-Outs
Photo credit: Rob Crawley (CC-By-2.0) U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) offered an amendment to S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, that would require schools in states receiving Title I funds to notify...
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Survey: Where Does Your U.S. Representative Stand on Education?
Photo credit: Rob Crawley (CC-By-2.0) We would like you to gather some information for us. We would like to know where your U.S. Representative stands on education policy. If you don’t know please...
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Opt-Outs Threaten Schools’“Blue Ribbon” Status
Newsday reports that assessment opt-outs threaten several schools “Blue Ribbon” status in New York. The actual awards, however, normally would be based largely on results from the latest round of...
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ESEA Reauthorization Conference Report Advances to Final Vote in the Senate
Photo credit: Rob Crawley (CC-By-2.0) The ESEA reauthorization conference report, S.1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) advanced in the U.S. Senate on a 84 to 12 cloture vote. The vote took...
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Data Privacy & Opt-Out Bills Before Arizona Senate
A Stop Common Core activist in Arizona sent an email about two different bills being heard in the Arizona Legislature. HB 2088 passed the Arizona House 24 to 2 on March 1st, and will be heard in the...
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Buffalo Schools Punishing Students for Opting Out
Hutch Technical High School in Buffalo, NY Carol Burris, former New York high school principle and executive director for the Network for Public Education, in a guest post on The Washington Post’s...
View ArticleNew York Teachers Perform Parody Targeting Common Core & Cuomo
Some teachers and administrators for the Bay Shore School District in Bay Shore, NY sung a light-hearted parody targeting Common Core, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and opt-outs. The song titled “Welcome Back...
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New York School Makes Students Verbally Refuse Test
Photo credit: Joe Mabel (CC-by-SA 3.0) Freeport Public School District located in Long Island in New York does not allow parents to opt students out. Instead students have to verbally tell a teacher as...
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Will Utah Fight for Parental Control After Feds Deny ESSA Opt-Out Waiver?
So much for returning educational autonomy to the states. In his inaugural address, President Trump sounded a clarion call for transferring power from the federal government to the people: [T]oday we...
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RNC Approves Resolution Addressing Parental Rights Regarding Sex Ed
The Republican National Committee at their Summer Meeting in Austin, TX passed a resolution that protects students from potentially unsuitable content by supporting a parent’s right to grant prior...
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