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TAKE ACTION!
"Letter to our Principal"
3rd grade parents: Sign a letter addressed to your principal directing him/her to only use test scores in conjunction with other indicators for promotion. Make sure to fill in the name of your principal and school in the appropriate places. Have as many 3rd grade parents sign the letter as possible before submitting to the principal.
Download, Print and Distribute.
Dear Principal
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After you submit the letter to your principal, please forward a copy of the signed letter to Time Out From Testing.
175 W. 93 St: PHA
New York, New York 10025
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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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Time Out...
