Parents support Chicago teacher test boycott
Parents Across America, Chicago-based Parents United for Responsible Education, and
the Chicago coalition More Than a Score strongly support the teachers at Chicago’s Saucedo
and Drummond schools and any other teachers in Chicago or elsewhere in Illinois who are refusing to administer the Illinois Standards
Achievement Test to their students beginning on Monday, March 3.
The parents represented by PAA, PURE, and MTAS oppose the misuse and
overuse of standardized tests. We believe that schools across the nation – including those in Chicago – are being forced to administer far too many tests and to waste too much precious learning
time on testing and test preparation. Some tests are given just to
predict how students will do on future tests. Others are unfairly and
improperly used to make life-changing decisions about children, a use that
test makers themselves say is wrong. The ISAT is being phased out
this year and has no particular purpose, but is being
- See more at: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/parents-support-chicago-teacher-test-boycott/