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IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Read: Frequently Asked Questions about the 3rd Grade Retention Policy.
Read: In Spanish.
New! Read the bill - State Senate Passes Bill Protecting Consortium Schools.
Letter from Chancellor Klein to all NYC Principals
Letter to Chancellor Klein from Jane Hirschmann
English Language Arts Testing Program - Technical Report
Report to the New York City Department of Education
Press Release: "17,000 3rd graders guaranteed to fail reading test"
The Response to Mills: Read the accurate data about New York State students
EPP's letter to the Mayor and the Chancellor.
Written in opposition to the proposed policy of holding students back in the third grade if they test at Level 1 on either English Language Arts or Math on city standardized tests.
Panel For Educational Policy Members
Names, numbers, and email addresses of people to contact about rescinding the Mayor's 3rd Grade Testing Policy
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Please join us in speaking out about the KLEIN/BLOOMBERG SPIN on Test Scores and Mayoral Control. Let us know if we can add your organization.
Read our statement: English
Read our statement: Spanish
Organizations that are supporting the statement:
Teachers Unite, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence, New York Collective of Radical Educators, Mothers Against Mayoral Control, It Is Time, Grassroots Education Movement GEM,
The Purple Circle Day Care Center
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Council Member Bill de Blasio has just issued a report that calls for the DOE to spend more money on teaching and less on standardized testing.
Read the report here.
Read the source list.
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The Alliance for Childhood has issued a report on the need for creative play, not testing or test prep, in kindergarten.
+ Read the flier
+ Read the 8-page summary.
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Stop K-2 standardized testing!
Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg are considering a policy to bring mandated standardized testing to kindergarten through 2nd grade.
We must stop them!
Sign the online petition today, and pass on the link.
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NCLB is up for reauthorization NOW!
Read about it in THIS BOOKLET
Then contact your congressperson
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