Colorado and PARCC. What will be left? Just the Students and the Chromebooks
Colorado superintendents have recently become more vocal. They want more local control. They want to be in charge of making financial decisions for their districts. And they need support. They state, “It can’t be just us. We need parents and teachers and people who care about their communities to let legislators know they’re not willing for their local schools to be run this way,” Glass said.
I am guessing that these superintendents would be even more vocal, and share more information, if we could indeed get the parents and teachers to rally behind them. Dare I say, that some of them might - just might - support opt out? I have always believed that there are a lot of good folks at the top who also would speak out, if only they had the backing to do so.
The article (see link above) continues by talking about online standardized testing - an unfunded mandate:
While state lawmakers are keeping the purse strings tight at one end, superintendents claim they’re forcing local school districts to come up with money to pay for unfunded mandates. One of the latest is the state and federal