Students in grades 3-11 will be taking the PARCC standardized tests in New Jersey in March.

Students in grades 3-11 will be taking the PARCC standardized tests in New Jersey in March.

The chairman of New Jersey's Assembly Education Committee says hiring a company to scour the internet for leaks of PARCC questions and test topics is unacceptable and he will introduce a bill to address the issue

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PARCC: In unanimous vote, N.J. Assembly says schools should accommodate opt outs | NJ.com: PARCC: In unanimous vote, N.J. Assembly says schools should accommodate opt outs TRENTON — Students who don't want to take the PARCC exams should be able to attend regular classes or work on other school activities during testing, according to New Jersey's Assembly. A bill (A4165) requiring schools to accommodate students refusing the state's standardized tests passed the Assembly 72-0 this afternoon. Before becoming law, the proposal requires approval from the state Senate — which has yet to act on any PARCC legislation passed by the Assembly — and Gov. Chris Christie. The bill directs schools to provide students refusing the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams with an ungraded alternative activity or to allow those students to engage in supervised reading or other self directed work. If a student's regularly scheduled class is in session during the administration of a PARCC test the student is refusing, that student would be allowed to attend the class, according to the bill. New Jersey is among a majority of states with no policy on whether students can refuse state tests or how schools should treat those who do. Instead, each district was left to make its own decision when the new tests for grades 3-11 debuted across the state in late February and early March Thousands of students have refused PARCC for various reasons, including concerns that the math and English tests are unnecessarily confusing, have stolen away too much instructional time and are too new to be used as a 10 percent weight in teacher evaluations. Some districts have allowed students to read in another room during testing this month, but others have made students stay with their classmates while they test. A Hope Township eighth grader testified at last week's Assembly Education committee meeting that she was forced to sit at a blank computer screen, and a Clark Township teen told NJ Advance Media he was pressured into taking PARCC even though he had submitted a refusal letter. Jean McTavish, a leader of the New Jersey chapter of United Opt Out, called the bill "a great first step" in addressing the disparate treatment of students refusing PARCC. "I feel like we are starting to be heard, and that's a great thing," McTavish said. The state Department of Education has said that schools could face sanctions, including financial penalties, if 95 percent of students don't take the tests, as required by federal law. But the New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, has doubted that financial penalties will be enforced. Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan Jr. (D-Middlesex), who introduced the bill, previously urged students should take the tests, regardless of the legislation. "I think it would be helpful for everybody's kids to take this test," he said last month. "You don't know what's wrong with it really until you actually try it." Republican support of the bill shouldn't be seen as encouragement to opt out but PARCC: In unanimous vote, N.J. Assembly says schools should accommodate opt outs | NJ.com: PARCC leads Somerset Hills to cancel midterm exams in 2016, report says PARCC: In unanimous vote, N.J. Assembly says schools should accommodate opt outs PARCC is not a proper replacement for midterm and final exams, extend 7 Train to Secaucus | Letters N.J. Assembly to consider PARCC opt-out bill today Hold alternate-route teachers to high certification standards, N.J. shouldn't pay for PARCC errors | Letters

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Is it time well spent to give a test to students in grades 3 through 11 twice a year to try and assess their “readiness for college and careers?”

Letter writer Heidi Brown believes the New Jersey Department of Education needs to clearly outline instructions for students wishing to refuse to take the PARCC tests.

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — A new Common Core standardized test affects 1.3 million students in local schools. Now, though, a small but growing percentage of New Jersey families at public schools required to administer the tests have chosen to opt out, and many teachers are supporting them. The teachers union, called the New Jersey Education […]

A group of Barbieri Elementary teachers state they can not "stay silent as PARCC makes it way into our classrooms."

PARCC tests will appear in front of students at every school in the state this spring, hand-in-hand with the implementation of the new nationwide curriculum standards, Common Core.

Critics of PARCC testing are reaching into conspiracy territory when they point fingers at the for-profit company that drafted and will grade the tests.

New Jersey recently made a deal with Pearson Education to write, score and administer the state's new standardized tests for public school students.

In New Jersey, the PARCC exams are being given to all public school students in grades 3 through 11. That makes the test the biggest and costliest exam in the state's history.

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — Day one of PARCC testing did not go smoothly in Dumont, said Evelyn Quigley, a mom of two. “The high school students that were supposed to be taking the test were not able to log in,” she said. School administrators report that the ‘Start’ button was missing from computer screens. Quigley […]

It is much harder for students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds to earn diplomas,

Across New Jersey, districts are preparing for a building "opt out" movement aimed at the PARCC exams, computerized tests designed to be more challenging than their predecessor

"Why are we giving up so much time to do something that we don't actually need?" he asked the board.