This could work! RESTORE RECESS PARTY- NEW YORK STATE- EDUCATION PROGRAM (Draft) 1. Restore Recess. No use of Recess or Physical Education for Test prep 2. Cut the state testing budget in half and use the money to lower class size and fund arts programs, sports programs and school counselors. 3. No Data Sharing. No information about children can be shared with anyone outside of the school district without parental permission 4 Create a new Education Policy Committee to replace the Education Reform Commission, and require it to have a majority of currently active teachers and parents 5. End the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations. 6. Cancel all State Education Contracts with for profit companies 7. Stop all School Closings- Help Schools in Trouble, Dont Close Them 8. End state support for the Common Core Standards- Leave that decision up to each individual school district. 9. Multiply the number of portfolio schools which require no tests at all. Let teachers and parents form them within the public school system, not as charters 10. Bring back vocational and technical education into every school district if parents and teachers support it 11. Withdraw from Race to the Top and take no Federal Funds that require more testing or adoption of Common Core Standards 12. Make sure all schools, especially those in high poverty areas, have strong after school programs. 13, Make Community History welcome in the schools 14. Encourage the creation of school farms and gardens Mark D Naison Professor of African American Studies and History Fordham University
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:35:43 +0000
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