Stop Regulations that Punish Public Schools for High Opt Out Rates

 

Please send a message to NY State Education Department today to amend their proposed regulations that would punish schools for high-opt rates by mislabeling them in need of Comprehensive Support and making them use Title I funds to persuade parents to force their kids to take the state exams. 

The NY State Education Department has proposed regulations that would punish schools with high opt-out rates by giving them poor evaluations, and that could force these schools to use Title I funds to persuade parents to make their children take the state exams.  These regs would also allow the Commissioner to unilaterally close any school with high opt-out rates and/or convert it to a charter school. Please send a message to NYSED today, urging them to delete these provisions of the regulations!

If you’d like to add your voice, please send a message to NYSED by clicking here.