Schools that respected parents’ right to opt their children out of unfair Common Core SBAC tests
After withholding Connecticut’s Common Core SBAC results for weeks, the Connecticut State Department of Education announced that approximately 267,000 Connecticut public school students took the SBAC test in 2015, which is just over 95% of all students.
By comparison, in New York State, more than 200,000 public school children were opted out of that state’s Common Cores testing program. That means MORE than 20% of all public school students did not take the test.
In New York, Connecticut and all across the nation parents have a fundamental, inalienable right to protect their children from the abusive nature of the Common Core SBAC testing scam.
However, in Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration led an unethical and immoral campaign that lied, mislead and bullied parents into believing that they did Schools that respected parents’ right to opt their children out of unfair Common Core SBAC tests - Wait What?:
SBAC Results – Telling us what we know about poverty, language barriers and unmet Special Education needs
Academic experts have proven over and over again that the major factors influencing standardized test results are poverty, language barriers and unmet special education needs.
Wealthier students, students who are fluent in English and students who don’t need special education services do better.
For students who do need special education services, when schools properly fund those programs, students do better.
The Common Core SBAC test is not only designed to fail the majority of public school students, but is particularly discriminatory because the SBAC scam’s definition of “success” is even more directly connected to wealth, proficiency in the English language and the lack of any need for special education services.
The following chart makes the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory nature of the Common Core SBAC test extremely clear. The chart rank orders the percent of students deemed “proficient” in MATH, by town, according to the 2015 Common Core.
Note that eighth graders who live in wealthier towns with few English Language Learners and the funds necessary to provide special education services score higher on the SBAC Math test, while students who come from communities in http://jonathanpelto.com/2015/08/29/sbac-results-telling-us-what-we-know-about-poverty-language-barriers-and-unmet-special-education-needs/