Show Up In Person to Stand Up for Public Education!
Education Advocacy Groups from across New York Unite to form NYS Allies for Public Education and Plan Protest at Commissioner King’s Visit to Rochester
New York Education Commissioner John King will be visiting Rochester’s School of the Arts on August 28th. Although his visit is not open to the public, members of a newly formed coalition of parents, educators and students called New York State Allies for Public Education [NYSAPE] plan to make their opposition to excessive tests and data sharing known by protesting outside of the school at 1pm.
NYSAPE includes groups from the following regions:
NYC: Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), Save Our Schools, Stop Common Core in NYS, Change the Stakes, Class Size Matters, ParentVoicesNY, Time Out From Testing
Long Island: Long Island Opt Out Info, Long Island Parents for Education
Western New York: Western New Yorkers for Public Education, Concerned Teachers of Chautauqua County, East Aurora Supporters of Public Education, Hamburg Parents for QUALITY Public Education, Ken-Ton Parents Against Excessive Testing, Lancaster Central School District Info on Standardized Testing, NYS Stop Testing, O.P. Parents Against Excessive Testing, Partnership for Smarter Schools , Rush Henrietta Parents Against Excessive Standardized Testing, Williamsville Parents for Meaningful Assessment
Central New York: New York State Foundations of Education Association Opt Out of State Standardized Tests – New York (Opt Out NY)
Oneonta Area for Public Education
Adirondack Region: Opt Out Staab, Saranac Lake Parent Faculty Education Alliance
Hudson Valley: Heads Down-Thumbs Up, Ossining Citizens For Schools,
Parents For Change – Warwick, NY, Re-Thinking Testing Mid-Hudson Region
Student test scores on the state standardized exams plummeted this year: only 31% of students passed these tests. Parents throughout the state are outraged and convinced that Commissioner King set the passing scores on these exams to convince them that their children and schools are failing to help him impose his damaging agenda. Last weekend, nearly 2,000 parents and teachers, including members of NYSAPE, attended a protest rally in Long Island, expressing their opposition to these unfair and invalid exams.
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