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Two Massachusetts Schools Approve PARCC Opt-Out

Filed in Common Core Assessments by Shane Vander Hart on March 19, 2014 • 0 Comments

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Educational officials in Massachusetts have been telling parents who desire to opt-out that it is mandatory that their students participate in the PARCC field testing that is occurring, despite not really having legal authority to do so.

Two school committees have bucked that trend.  The Worchester School Committee gave parents permission to opt-out, and now the Tantasqua Regional School Committee has done the same.

From the Telegram & Gazzette:

Tantasqua Regional School Committee member William J. Gillmeister of Brookfield made the motion asking for the school’s administration to develop protocol to allow parents of students scheduled to take the PARCC field test to opt out of the testing.

The motion passed with an 8-7 vote.

“I’m opposed to the Common Core and I’m certainly opposed to the PARCC test,” Mr. Gillmeister said. “Students have to take the MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive