Teachers at 2 more Seattle schools join MAP test boycott
More teachers in Seattle Public Schools have joined the protest against the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test.
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Teachers at two more Seattle schools have joined the boycott of the exams known as the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), a protest that started in winter at Garfield High and resumed last week with the beginning of the spring testing period.
At a news conference Monday, the protesting teachers announced that some of their colleagues at Ingraham High and Thornton Creek Elementary also will boycott the MAP this spring. At Thornton Creek, all the teachers are participating in the boycott. At Ingraham, the exact number was unclear, but representatives from that school said it would include at least all the language-arts teachers.
In the winter testing period, nearly all members of the teaching staff at Garfield refused to give the exams, and so did a majority of the staff at Chief Sealth High and ORCA K-8. Half the teachers at Ballard High and many at Center School also joined the winter protest, but only after those schools’ ninth-graders had finished or had nearly finished taking the exams.
Many other teachers, although they haven’t joined the boycott, have sent letters of support. The protest also has gained support across the nation and around the world.
Jesse Hagopian, one of the protesting teachers at Garfield, also said Franklin High teachers will