Opponents of Common Core standards are urging parents to boycott next year’s state math and English exams, despite the state imposing a four-year freeze on using the results to grade students or teachers.
NYS Allies for Public Education said Wednesday that state and local school districts are administering too many tests and want the Common Core standards scrapped completely.
“We will continue to refuse to allow our children to participate in this system until all harmful reforms are removed,” said a spokesman for the group LI Opt Out.
About 200,000 students boycotted the last exams.
Supporters of higher standards slammed the anti-testing organizers as zealots.
“Their real goal is to destroy higher common core aligned standards and assessments and return to an era where generations of kids were allowed to be left behind,” said High Achievement NY executive director Stephen Sigmund.