Reasons parents are refusing the SBAC assessment: The Cooperative Agreement between SBAC and the Federal Department of Education, demands that SBAC share student level data with the federal government. (Link 1) The federal DOE changed FERPA to allow sharing of student level data with “stakeholders” without parental consent. (Link 2) A Missouri court has found…
By South Dakota law, schools are required to administer an annual test to measure academic progress in grades 3-8 and 11. South Dakota schools have been doing this since the inception of No Child Left Behind. Because of that federal mandate, South Dakota developed the Dakota STEP test aligned to our academic standards to show…
Yesterday we shared with you about AIR and their ties to SBAC, the Common Core testing arm in South Dakota. You can read that here. Today, I wake up to find this in my email box. If you still think Common Core is about education standards, please watch the video and read Dr Gary Thompson’s…
South Dakotans Against Common Core 