Would you like to opt your child out of SAGE computer adaptive tests? Click to get our opt-out form and instructions. Which districts are known to be friendly or unfriendly: Opt-out friendly districts Alpine actually created a simple form for parents to use Cache Canyons Davis Duchesne Granite Jordan Morgan Provo Tooele Uintah Wasatch Weber … Continue reading Friendly Opt-Out Districts
Here’s a few comments from the UACC Facebook page. Unfortunately, Utah’s infatuation with constructivist math isn’t going to stop till Common Core is replaced with quality math standards. Don’t miss the success story of one parent using Alpine’s opt out form in her own school district. You have the right as a parent to opt … Continue reading Parent math complaints and opting out of SAGE
My head is swimming in disbelief. Alpine School District is the first district in the state to publish a Common Core test opt-out form and make it available to all parents in the school district. It’s a simple one page form. Unfortunately I can’t locate it on their website, but I was sent a copy … Continue reading Alpine offers Common Core Test Opt-Out
This is a post to share with all your friends and neighbors. Not everyone is going to do this, but we need as many people as possible to participate. If you have a child in school, please print out a copy of this form and send it in. Here’s a pdf copy and the text … Continue reading The Exodus, opting out of Common Core assessments and data collection
State Hotline – report offenses Are your family’s rights being violated? Your child being bullied or shamed by teachers or administrators? Contact the USOE hotline immediately. Information and instructions here: https://www.schools.utah.gov/internalaudit?mid=892&tid=3 Quick reference: call 801-538-7813 or email audit@schools.utah.gov. Share your story with them and email your story to state board members at board@schools.utah.gov. Opting out of … Continue reading Opt-Out Forms
Jared Carman put together a great opt-out form you can print and send to the state notifying them that they may not compel your child to participate in computer adaptive testing and may not share your child’s personal information with AIR, the federal government, or any other 3rd party. If everyone would print one of … Continue reading Jared Carman’s opt-out form for notifying the state on CAT’s and privacy
Alisa Ellis is sharing this great letter she used to opt her children out of state testing. You can easily modify this to your needs and opt out your children as well. Happening right now in schools, it’s CRT tests. By next year it will probably be the AIR/SAGE adaptive tests unless we succeed in … Continue reading The State Testing Opt-Out Form
Reprinted with permission from: http://nhfamiliesforeducation.org/content/maine-state-board-education-member-speaks-out-against-competency-based-education My name is Heidi Sampson, I am a member of the State Board of Education in Maine. I am in no way speaking for the Maine SBE, but as a concerned citizen who has a vested interest in NH. I wanted to share information with the New Hampshire Legislators on … Continue reading Maine State Board of Education member speaks out against CBE
It’s an election year and I think that’s about all the explanation we need to understand a recent political flier from Governor Herbert. The Governor has to be a little worried about his political race this year. His challenger strongly opposes Common Core and its associated agenda, and Governor Herbert has been one of the … Continue reading Governor Herbert’s Outrageous Claim
The Utah State Office of Education is pushing to have Utah adopt the national “Next Generation Science Standards” which is Common Core for science (and happens to be rated much lower than our current science standards). To do this, they have been deceptive with the public and the parent review committee telling everyone these standards … Continue reading Utah’s Deceptive Science Standards Adoption
