Parents

You can Opt your child Out of 4J easyCBM 

standardized reading and math tests -

ALL Standardized Tests

  Read North Eugene H.S. Senior Diego Hernandez's outstanding, eloquent Guest Editorial

           on dealing with COVID, distance learning, and offering advice to his teachers

"Create change that's been put aside for years. Allow our teachers to lead the charge so we can be the change."

https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/10/04/covid-19-and-my-senior-year/3589283001/

 Read Jerry Rosiek's outstanding, eloquent Open Letter to area teachers

thanking them for their hard work and standing with them.

https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/09/29/teachers-you-seen-deeply-appreciated/3562798001/

Educators' March for Black Lives Matter

Friday at Noon

Read powerful Open Letter to Joe Biden

from Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris

of the Network for Public Education 

co-signed by 4J School Board member Gordon Lafer

and friends of CAPE Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, and Bill Bigelow


Among its calls: "A reinvestment in public education; an end to high stakes standardized testing; and support for the NAACP's call for a moratorium on corporate charter schools.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/26/demanding-end-failed-billionaire-backed-policies-200-teachers-and-activists-urge

Read this powerful New York Times Editorial

calling for the end of the SAT and ACT Standardized Tests

for admission to the California University System

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/napolitano-california-sat.html

            UPDATE: The Regents of the California University System voted to do this:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-21/uc-drops-sat-and-act-test-requirement-for-admission

Read this Guest Viewpoint by CAPE members Roscoe and Larry

in the Eugene Register-Guard

"We advocate a new direction — a more balanced course that moves the district toward increased amounts of innovation and creativity and employee confidence. Our leader must draw out the best and brightest ideas from all within the organization."

https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20200518/guest-view-district-leader-for-these-times