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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Malloy/Wyman moving forward with threats to punish schools districts that respect parents’ “opt-out” rights - Wait What?

Malloy/Wyman moving forward with threats to punish schools districts that respect parents’ “opt-out” rights - Wait What?:

Malloy/Wyman moving forward with threats to punish schools districts that respect parents’ “opt-out” rights


REMEMBER:  There is no federal or state law, regulation or legal policy that prohibits Connecticut parents from opting their children out of the destructive Common Core testing scheme.

However, according to a series of letters and memos signed by Connecticut Commissioner of Education Dr. Dianna R. Wentzell, on behalf of Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman’s administration, local school districts that failed to stop parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Consortium (SBAC) testing scam will be receiving a letter by (tomorrow) January 15, 2016 informing them that their local school system will lose grant funds if they don’t force at least 90% of the children to take this year’s Common Core tests.

Education Commissioner Wentzell has informed Connecticut superintendents that there will Malloy/Wyman moving forward with threats to punish schools districts that respect parents’ “opt-out” rights - Wait What?: