Cancel the Tests and More! - Network For Public Education

Cancel the Tests and More! - Network For Public Education

Cancel the Tests and More!

Join NEA’s national campaign to cancel the tests. Here is what they suggest.

1. Take Action. Submit a comment to the Department of Education. The proposed waiver template does not go far enough to offer states and districts the flexibility we believe they need to support students and rebuild schools. 

2. Spread the word.  Help get as many folks as possible to sign onto the open letter at www.nea.org/CancelTheTests. Signing on begins with you. 

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Charter schools are underfunded? Ummm, this new report from Class Size Matters Leonie Haimson says, “not so fast.”

Read about how New York City charter facilities are overfunded with enhancement grants, while co-located publics are underfunded here.

NPE’s latest report, Chartered for Profit, is in the news.

Read this excellent analysis of our report by Valerie Strauss of The Washington Post here. If you have not read our report, click this link:https://networkforpubliceducation.org/chartered-for-profit/

Cancel the Tests and More! - Network For Public Education

Call Congress Today to Stop Testing - Network For Public Education

Call Congress Today to Stop Testing - Network For Public Education

Call Congress Today to Stop Testing

In December of 2019, candidate Joe Biden promised that if elected, he would stop standardized testing. His Department of Ed, however, said that we should have testing in the middle of the pandemic.

We pushed back and today, we have good news! Some members of Congress are asking the U.S. Department of Education to change its mind about testing! Read about it here. Let’s give them our support TODAY!

We need more members of Congress to get on board. We can’t give up.

1. Call Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office at: (202) 225-4965.

Here is a suggested script.

My name is (name). I am calling to request that Speaker Pelosi ask the President and Secretary Cardona to grant waivers from annual testing. Forcing schools to administer annual tests undermines the administration’s call to support our students’ social-emotional and mental health in this time of crisis. We need to put children, not data, first. Thank you.“

2. Then call your Representative and Senators. You can find their numbers here and here.

Here is a suggested script.

“My name is (name), and I am a constituent of (name). I strongly oppose the Department of Ed’s recent letter that forces schools to administer annual tests this year. All of our schools’ efforts must be used to support our students’ social-emotional and mental health in this time of crisis.  I am requesting that (name) speak with the President and Secretary Cardona and ask them to grant waivers from the annual testing mandate. Thank you.”

Call Congress Today to Stop Testing - Network For Public Education