OPERATION OPT OUT OHIO Protecting Our Children & Reclaiming Our Classrooms As most of you know, the PARCC assessments were replaced by assessments “to be developed” by testing vendor American Institutes for Research (A.I.R.), who also administers the Ohio Social Studies and Science assessments. This replacement of PARCC does nothing but change vendors. The tests are still high-stakes, still collect data, and are still aligned with the Common Core State Standards. The only good news […] 
This may seem like old news, but I’m posting this as a reminder to candidates who are running as Republicans. Two years ago, the Republican National Committee (RNC) passed a resolution claiming the Republican Party recognized Common Core was an inappropriate overreach of the federal government into local education, and that it vowed to repeal these standards and any legislation that supported them. Ohio’s Gov John Kasich does not agree with this resolution and has […] 
A few high profile Republican U.S. Senators introduced S. 182, Learning Opportunities Created at the Local (LOCAL) Level Act, on January 16th, which would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (EASA) to prohibit federal education mandates. The bill has been referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Sponsored by Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) and co-sponsored by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), James Inhofe (R-OK) and Ohio’s Rob Portman, S. 182 […] 
From the start, the Common Core repeal bill HB 597 was put behind the eight ball. Shortly after it passed out of committee, Rep. Matt Huffman, speaker pro tempore and one of the bill’s sponsors, told the Cincinnati Enquirer, “If we don’t think we have the votes to pass it, we won’t bring it to the floor.” At that point, the bar had been set and the message to all fence-sitting House Republicans was: Sit […] 
My previous post on the House bill which curbs standardized testing incorrectly stated that the bill would limit testing on state achievement and graduation tests to four hours per student per year. The bill actually limits standardized testing to four hours per assessment per year. The limit would go into effect for the 2015-16 school year. The confusion stems from news reports which characterized the proposed testing limit as “four hours per student per year,” […] -
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