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"Letter to our Principal"

3rd grade parents: Sign a letter addressed to your principal directing him/her to only use test scores in conjunction with other indicators for promotion. Make sure to fill in the name of your principal and school in the appropriate places. Have as many 3rd grade parents sign the letter as possible before submitting to the principal.

Download, Print and Distribute.
Dear Principal

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After you submit the letter to your principal, please forward a copy of the signed letter to Time Out From Testing.
175 W. 93 St: PHA
New York, New York 10025

Please help collect signatures for this campaign. Download and circulate the petition at your child's school, at work, anywhere!

Want more info? Read our fact sheet that explains the problems with the Teacher Data Reports.

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Help stop K-2 standardized testing in our schools!
Download and copy the parent protest letter and SLT & PTA resolutions, and gather signatures today!
+ Letter for School Leadership Teams and PTAs
+ Letter for Parents
+ Letter for Parents, spanish

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The Alliance for Childhood has issued a report on the need for creative play, not testing or test prep, in kindergarten.
+ Read the flier
+ Read the 8-page summary.

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Stop K-2 standardized testing!
Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg are considering a policy to bring mandated standardized testing to kindergarten through 2nd grade. We must stop them!

Sign the online petition today, and pass on the link.

NCLB is up for reauthorization NOW!
Read about it in THIS BOOKLET
Then contact your congressperson

Did You Know?
Did you know that charter schools in New York City enroll fewer students who qualify for free lunch and fewer homeless students?

Music Video: "Not on the Test"
Produced by: Public School Test Records and Grammy Award-winner Tom Chapin

Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Sam Dillon, New York Times

As Test-Taking Grows, Test-Makers Grow Rarer
David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Principals Face Review in Education Overhaul
Elissa Gootman, New York Times

"No Child Left Behind: The Test"
Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools

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More information against NCLB.

"Test Question No. 1: Why Have These Tests?"
NYT article on one of Time Out's strongest activists: Jane R. Hirschmann

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