Resources

OPTING OUT

Refusal Letters and Guides

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  2019 Refusal Letter
  
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  2018 NYSAPE Opt-Out Fact Sheet
  
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  Just Say No to Standardized Tests: Why and How to Opt Out
  
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  NYSUT Fact Sheet: Opt-Out of State Tests
  

Videos

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  Top 10 Reasons to Opt Out of the State Tests
  
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  Refusals Hit Main Street
  
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  Charter Schools and Opt Out
  

Facebook Groups

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  LI Opt Out
  
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  Kings Park Advocates for Education
  

Websites

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  NYSAPE
  
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  The Network for Public Education
  
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  The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
  

CORPORATE REFORM

Privatizing Primer

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  A Primer on Corporate School Reform
  
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  Privatizing Primer
  
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  A primer on the damaging movement to privatize public schools
  

Background Information

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  Who are the corporate reformers?
  
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  Mapping the Movement to Dismantle Public Education
  
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  Privatizing Public Education, Higher Ed Policy, and Teachers
  
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  “Portfolio” Boosters Want to Privatize Public Schools
  
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  Education Inc.: How Private Companies Profit from Public Schools
  

Charters, Vouchers & Choice

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  Beware of Trump and DeVos’ grand plan to privatize public education
  
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  Why Conventional School “Reforms” Have Failed Charter Schools Are Not the Key to Improving Public Education
  
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  School Choice Fails to Create Equity and Justice for Our Society’s Poorest Children
  
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  Hedge fund investors seek huge profits through charters like Rocketship
  
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  The Untold History of Charter Schools
  
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  Truth: Why Vouchers and School Choice Were Created
  

New Market Tax Credit

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  Getting rich on Charter Schools with the Clintons’ New Markets Tax Credit
  
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  Inside the Hedge Fund Infatuation with Charter Schools
  

EB-5

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  NYSAPE
  
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  The Network for Public Education
  
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  The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
  

WHOLE CHILD EDUCATION

Whole-Child Education

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  Educating ‘the whole child’ isn’t just jargon. Here’s how it’s done.
  
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  Whole-Child Education
  

Recess/Play

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  Building a Culture of Health Through Safe and Healthy Elementary School Recess
  
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  Strategies for Recess in School
  
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  The Crucial Role of Recess in School
  

Homework

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  Rethinking Homework
  

Consortium Schools

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  NYC schools that skip standardized tests have higher graduation rates
  
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  New York Performance Standards Consortium
  
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  These New York Schools Aren’t Just Letting Kids Opt Out of Testing—They’re Giving Them an Alternative
  

COMMON CORE

Common Core

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  The Common Core FAQ
  
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  Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core
  

Next Generation of Learning Standards

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  Preface to the New York State Next Generation English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standard
  
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  10 things you need to know about the Next Generation Learning Standards
  
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  New York Has Rewritten the Common Core. Here’s What You Need to Know.
  
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  New education standards just a PR campaign
  

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  NYSAPE PR ESSA – CC – NYS ALLIES FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
  
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  Remember Common Core? NY standards get new name
  
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  New York’s ‘Next Generation’ Education Standards – The Proof Of The Pudding Is In The Eating | HuffPost
  
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  New York’s reading standards rewrite should alarm parents
  
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  Is Common Core Really Gone in New York?
  

ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act)

General Information

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  ESSA-What You Need to Know
  
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  Key Takeaways State ESSA Plans
  
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  Accountability Memo
  

ESSA Fact Sheets

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  NYSUT Revised Fact Sheet
  
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  ESSA Fact Sheet for Parents
  
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  ESSA Fact Sheet for Educators
  
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  ESSA Fact Sheet for BOE Members
  

ESSA Accountability Info

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  Understanding Accountability ESSA
  
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  2018-19 Accountability Status Report Guide
  

NYS EDUCATION POLICY

How Laws Get Passed in NYS

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  How a Bill Becomes a Law NYS
  

APPR/Receivership

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  Fact Sheet: School Receivership
  
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  NYSED: Receivership
  
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  Set Up for Failure
  
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  APPR Guidance 3012-d
  

Education Transformation Act

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  Summary
  

BOARD OF EDUCATION

General Information

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  Board Meetings
  
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  Overview
  
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  What School Boards Do
  
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  How to Speak to a School Board
  
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  Public School Boards Demystified: How Parents Can Influence the Board’s Decisions
  
  
• School Boards FAQ

• Do No Harm Letter to the BOE