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Parent's Lobby Day: A Success!

On Lobby Day in Albany, March 13, a bus load of Time Out From Testing parents, teachers, and students joined the Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council (CPAC) and the UFT to meet with state representatives in Albany.

More than a dozen members of the State Assembly's Education Committee and their staffs met with representatives from Time Out From Testing.

Most of the representatives visited xpressed their solidarity with Time Out From Testing's position regarding excessive and high stakes testing, even offering personal stories of their own about the negative impact of high stakes testing.

Several also expressed deep concern regarding mayoral control.

Followup letters are being sent to those visited.

Chancellor Joel Klein is actively pursuing the position as Secretary of Education in the Obama administration. He is presenting the situation in NYC as the "New York Miracle" rather than the disaster it has been.

We are supporting petitions to prevent this.

GO NOW TO STOPJOELKLEIN.org

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PROTE$T!
Download the K-2 letter, ask parents to sign, and collect and return letters to:
Jane Hirschmann
Time Out From Testing
175 West 93rd Street
New York, NY 10025

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TELL THE MAYOR AND THE CHANCELLOR: NO BUDGET CUTS TO CLASSROOMS.


NCLB is up for reauthorization NOW!
Read about it in THIS BOOKLET
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Music Video: "Not on the Test"
Produced by: Public School Test Records and Grammy Award-winner Tom Chapin

"Keeping Accountability Systems Accountable,"
Martha Foote, Jan. 2007

Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Sam Dillon, New York Times

As Test-Taking Grows, Test-Makers Grow Rarer
David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Principals Face Review in Education Overhaul
Elissa Gootman, New York Times

"No Child Left Behind: The Test"
Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools

National Education Association:
More information against NCLB.

"Test Question No. 1: Why Have These Tests?"
NYT article on one of Time Out's strongest activists: Jane R. Hirschmann

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