Tell our United States Senators to vote no on the Common Core Testing Mania - Wait What?

Tell our United States Senators to vote no on the Common Core Testing Mania - Wait What?:

Tell our United States Senators to vote no on the Common Core Testing Mania

United States Senators need to stand up and protect our students and teachers!

From Connecticut educator and fellow education blogger Poetic Justice comes the following post,

Please Sign This United Opt Out petition to stop the Senate from passing the very flawed ESEA

Here is what United Opt Out has written in their petition to the US Senate.

“Since 2002 when No Child Left Behind became law, students, parents, and teachers have been subjected to a national education policy written to benefit the education testing industry and politicians out to privatize public education in America. As a result, schools have been turned into testing factories and thousands of low-scoring public schools that serve the poorest students have been closed and replaced by corporate charter schools that, on average, perform no better than the underfunded schools they replace. Those charters with high test scores most often exclude low-scoring and problem students, while subjecting their students to punishing discipline systems that middle class parents would never allow for their own children.

Next week the U. S. Senate will vote on a rewrite of No Child Left Behind that greatly expands the “No Excuses” charter school system that has gone from a few hundred to almost 7,000 schools during the past decade. If the new legislation becomes law, annual high stakes standardized testing in grades 3-12 will continue unabated, and the expansion of publicly funded and intensely segregated reform charter schools will intensify without the benefit of public oversight.

By signing the petition, you can let the U. S. Senate know to say NO to an ESEA reauthorization plan that, if passed, will set education policy back by over 50 years.

We can do better, and Congress must take the time to hear from parents, students, and teachers, whose voices have been silenced by organizations pretending to represent their interests.

Here is the link to the VOTE NO ON ESSA PETITION.

Tell the Senate that we say NO to a vision of 21st Century teaching and learning that treats our children like test scores and our teachers as automatons

‪#‎DoNoHarm ‪#‎ESEA

Again, here is the PETITION.

Tell our United States Senators to vote no on the Common Core Testing Mania - Wait What?:

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