Check out Guest Viewpoint in Register Guard

               on Stopping Standardized Testing this Spring

        by 4J School Board Candidates Maya Rabasa and Laural O'Rourke

https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/03/28/guest-view-why-testing-students-year-fails-standardized-tests-oregon/6969718002/

                  Mapleton School District School Board Advises Parents to Opt 

         Their Children Out of Spring Smarter Balanced Standardized Tests

Mapleton Board of Education
Resolution Supporting the Opt-Out Option for Smarter Balanced Testing

We, the Mapleton Board of Education, given our responsibility to safeguard and guide the education of Mapleton students, find that the administering of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium tests (SBAC) at this time of pandemic to be inappropriate and harmful to students, their families and to the school community. 

For the following reasons, we encourage parents to opt their children out of these tests:

1. The tests create mental stress for students at the exact time we’re trying to restore emotional health.

2. The tests will be meaningless: 

• They can’t provide a legitimate comparison to last year or next year; 

• They will not be administered in the controlled conditions that have been mandated in the past; 

• It is highly unlikely that there will be a 95% participation rate for validity as required in the past;

• The tests won’t provide any meaningful data about equity or achievement gaps – the stated main reason for their use.

It is therefore the Board’s recommendation that Mapleton parents and guardians strongly consider exercising their right, under House Bill 2655, to opt out their student from the Smarter Balanced tests.

                                         Check Out Register Guard Guest Viewpoint

                                by Retired Teacher and Educational Activist Paul Bodin

https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/02/14/guest-view-re-thinking-public-school-ahead-re-opening/6709282002/

 

Check out this new study on 

Online Charter Schools

by Gordon Lafer, Eugene parent and School Board member

COSTLY FAILURE

A new report by In the Public Interest on how California is overpaying for online charter schools that are failing students

http://costlyfailure.org

• • California is overpaying for nonclassroom-based charter schools by over $600 million per year.
• • Californians pay approximately $10,300 for every student who attends one of Pearson’s Connections Academy online charter schools.

 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/