Among their recommendations:
- We support option 1 to eliminate mandated annual testing, and we urge the Senate to remove high stakes attached to standardized tests, encourage flexibility in designing assessments, and provide the right of parents to opt their children out of standardized testing.
- Restore reducing class size as option that states and districts can use with their Title II funds, which is a research-based reform that also works to lower teacher attrition.
- Eliminate the use of federal funds for merit pay, which has consistently failed to improve student outcomes.
- Add to the reporting requirements of districts, states and the federal government so they must report trends in average class size data, as well as the disparity in class size between high and low poverty schools.
- Strengthen the language around student data privacy and limit federally mandated data collection of individual students.
- Oppose the diversion of resources to private and charter schools through portability of Title I funds and expansion of federal funding to charters.
Read the entire statement at http://www.networkforpubliceducation.org/2015/01/npe-statement-on-esea-reauthorization-and-annual-standardized-testing/
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