Just How White is Opt-Out?
Laura Waters
April 18, 2016
Opt Out Long Island is jubilantly tweeting about soaring test refusal rates on the North Fork. the peninsula on the northeast part of Suffolk County.
What Bill Bennett Got Wrong and Right About New York’s Opt-Out Movement and Teacher Unions
Laura Waters
April 15, 2016
Today at The 74 Bill Bennett suggests that the opt-out movement in New York is driven solely by teacher union leaders and allies who have
Comparing NY and NJ’s Opt-Out Fever
Laura Waters
April 13, 2016
New York and New Jersey are neighbors, but you’d never know it, at least judging by disparities in their anti-testing movements. Today EdWeek quotes N.Y.
Deconstructing Hillary Clinton’s Education Reform Agenda
Laura Waters
April 12, 2016
I’ll be honest: until I read this Newsday interview with Hillary Clinton where she said that she would opt her granddaughter into state standardized tests,
How Far Will Teacher Union Leaders Go to Undermine Standardized Testing?
Laura Waters
March 30, 2016
On Monday night South Brunswick parents were invited to an event called “The PARCC and Your Rights as Parents.” Free coffee and pastries, a night
QOD: NYS Regents Chancellor off to an “Unprofessional Start”
Laura Waters
March 25, 2016
From the Buffalo News; It doesn’t augur well for excellence when the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents all but encourages parents to
Is Refusing Tests Just Like Fighting for Abolition and Marriage Equality?
Laura Waters
March 24, 2016
At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students did not sit for the
New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Suggests Poverty is Destiny; Has She Gone Too Far?
Laura Waters
March 22, 2016
New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, queen of the opt-out movement in New York State and heroine to teacher union leaders, is reaping widespread criticism for
Long Island Moms “Opt Out and Shop Out!”
Laura Waters
March 11, 2016
OMG. This is so cool. Newsday reports today that “opponents of Common Core testing plan an ‘Opt Out, Shop Out’event at Roosevelt Field Mall on
QOD: “Opting Out Hits the Hardest on Families That Can Absorb it the Least” and is the “Wrong Choice for Our Kids”
Laura Waters
February 23, 2016
Charles F. Coleman Jr., a civil rights attorney and former Brooklyn, NY prosecutor, explains why opting out of standardized state tests is the wrong choice