In California, it’s billionaires vs. the PTA on testing 2nd graders « Parents Across America

In California, it’s billionaires vs. the PTA on testing 2nd graders « Parents Across America:

In California, the PTA fights testing of 2nd-graders

by CarolineSF

I’m sharing information from the Educated Guess forum (run by the reform-minded Silicon Valley Education Foundation). State standardized testing has been imposed on second-graders here in California for quite a few years – in the ’90s, standardized testing began at third grade. California state Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) has sponsored a bill that would eliminate standardized testing for second-graders.

According to Educated Guess, the bill – backed by the California state PTA, the California School Boards Association, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and