In Western New York, which still has one of the strongest opt-out movements in the state, all 38 school districts in Erie and Niagara counties saw a decline in the number of students opting out since ...

It's been quieter this year in the lead-up to New York State English language arts assessments, which begin this week. It seems the lines have not moved much since more than 200,000 students around ...

JENKS - An internal probe into whether Jenks Public Schools employees encouraged parents to opt their children out of tests concluded that no district employees were involved, the Tulsa World has ...

Parents are the first educators of their children. And when parents enroll their children in the public education system, they are entrusting the education of their children to teachers, ...

No PARCCing! That was one of the signs held up during a New Jersey Board of Education meeting in January. PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) is one of the high ...

The Opt Out movement, which encourages parents to pull their children out of the yearly standardized testing regimen, is alive and well, though you wouldn’t know it in Arizona. Two opt out bills were ...

In a sharply worded opinion, an appeals court overturned a Leon County judge's 2016 decision that seemed to support the "opt-out" movement that encourages parents to defy standardized testing ...

The Oklahoma State Department of Education is investigating Jenks Public Schools apparently to see if its parent-led movement to opt students out of “field tests” was instigated or encouraged by ...

WASHINGTON — A dozen civil rights groups issued a statement Tuesday criticizing the growing movement of parents who refuse to allow their children to take standardized tests, saying the anti-test push ...