Past NYC Opt Out Actions
Statement in Response to NYSED’s Testing Waiver Proposal for the 2022 school year. Read more here.
NYC Opt Out Campaign to exhort City Council Education Chair Mark Treyger to reign in excessive testing. Read more here and consider contacting current education committee members and your own council member.
On State Standardized Testing, NYC Opt Out Exhorts Families to DO NOTHING
See our PRESS RELEASE to learn more.
Email the White House: Stop the Tests!
In order to email the White House, you must fill out a short form with your message. You will find everything you need to do that HERE.
ACTION: Cancel 2021 Tests
On 2/22/21, Ian Rosenblum, the acting deputy assistant secretary of education, sent a letter to state school leaders telling them that they could not cancel 3rd-8th grade state tests–even though schooling around the country has been disrupted for nearly a year due to the pandemic.
We organized a campaign aimed directly at Rosenblum to urge him to reverse this disastrous, impractical, and cruel decision.
Statement in Support of Federal Testing Waiver
Our grassroots coalition of families and educators wrote to Interim Commissioner Rosa, Chancellor Young, and Secretary Cardona asking them to support NY state in its request to be waived from certain ESSA obligations for spring 2021.
June 2020 Statement on admissions policy post-COVID 19
Read our thoughts and suggestions regarding admissions HERE.
NYC OPT OUT RESPONSE:
Mayor’s admissions policy announcement 12/18/2020
The announcement eliminating state test scores from the upcoming NYC Department of Education middle school admissions process is a significant step and one that parents and educators in NYC Opt Out have long advocated for. Read more HERE.
