PUBLIC
ADVOCATE
FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Letitia
James
For
Immediate Release: June 10,
2014
Public
Advocate James, Education Advocates to Call for End To Stand-Alone Field
Testing
High-Stakes
Field Testing Is Largely Believed To Produce Unreliable Results
(New York,
NY)— Today, Public Advocate Letitia James will be joined by education
advocates and elected officials in a rally for a ban on
stand-alone field testing, which is not required by New York State law
and is believed to produce unreliable results.
Recently,
the NYS Education Department (SED) targeted 1,125
New York City schools with an estimated 150,000 of our students slated to take
the stand-alone field tests. This is the third straight June that SED
and test publisher Pearson are taking a test development
approach that is unworkable. Equally concerning, most parents
remain unaware of the tests and the fact that the
SED is giving the student data to Pearson— a commercial interest that holds a
5-year, $32 million contract with SED.
WHO:
Education Advocates and Elected Officials
WHAT:
Rally for a ban on high-stakes field testing, non-mandated tests which
drain an already over-tested student body
WHEN:
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
11:00AM
WHERE:
Steps of Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers Street
New York, NY
10007
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Aja Worthy-Davis
Press Secretary
NYC Public Advocate Hon.
Letitia "Tish" James
1 Centre Street- 15th Floor
New York, NY
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