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Testing resistance: What LSCs can do

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What Local School Councils can do to challenge

the misuse and overuse of standardized tests

Learn more about standardized testing.

• Check out the More Than a Score web site for resources to share with your school’s parents, teachers and community. Share the MTAS fact sheets, “What Parents Need to Know about High-Stakes Testing,” in English and Spanish.
• Download user-friendly fact sheets about a wide range of testing issues on the FairTest web site, on thetesting resources page of PURE’s site, and from CReATE, a collaboration of local university researchers.

Hold a parent and/or community meeting where people can talk about testing. Ask teachers, education experts, More Than a Score or other group representatives to speak, and invite your local newspaper (see FairTest’s media toolkit for pointers)
Vote to sign the National Resolution on High-stakes Testing, and/or vote on your own resolution. Join the