{"id":21089,"date":"2015-02-27T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tashorg.wpengine.com\/?p=21089"},"modified":"2017-02-20T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:24:33","slug":"targeted-action-alert-esea-oppose-grade-span-testing-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tash.org\/targeted-action-alert-esea-oppose-grade-span-testing-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeted Action Alert on ESEA |\u00a0Oppose Grade-Span Testing Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>SUMMARY:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>During the House consideration\u00a0of HR 5, the following bipartisan Representatives proposed an amendment that will replace annual tests with grade-span testing:<\/p>\n<p>Gibson (NY), Sinema (AZ), Katko (NY), McKinley (WV), Takano (CA), Young, Don (AK), Collins, Chris (NY), Schock (IL), Ashford (NE), Davis, Rodney (IL)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amendments-rules.house.gov\/amendments\/GIBSON_010_xml22315145203523.pdf%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Amendment<\/a>\u00a0\u201creplaces current federal yearly testing requirements for math and language arts\/reading with the exact same grade-span testing requirements that are in current law for science.&#8221;\u00a0Grade-span testing withholds information from parents.\u00a0 Without the tests, parents will not know how their children are performing in school.<\/p>\n<p>Grade-span testing does NOT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow for measuring growth,<\/li>\n<li>Provide transparency that&#8217;s needed to hold schools accountable,<\/li>\n<li>Provide teachers and<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span>administrators with the information they need to make decisions about student progress,<\/li>\n<li>Provide fast change, due to lag time in results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>ACTION NEEDED:<br \/>\n<\/b>Please call your Representative listed above TODAY <a href=\"tel:202-224-3121\" target=\"_blank\"><b>202-224-3121<\/b><\/a><b> <\/b>and urge them to withdraw Amendment #112<\/p>\n<p><b>ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/tash.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/house-esea-reauthorization-bill-moving-fast-need-hear\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full action alert here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-10-HR-5-Kline-Opposition-Sign-On-Letter1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the HR 5<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span>letter of opposition here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUMMARY: During the House consideration\u00a0of HR 5, the following bipartisan Representatives proposed an amendment that will replace annual tests with grade-span testing: Gibson (NY), Sinema (AZ), Katko (NY), McKinley (WV), Takano (CA), Young, Don (AK), Collins, Chris (NY), Schock (IL), Ashford (NE), Davis, Rodney (IL) The Amendment\u00a0\u201creplaces current federal yearly testing requirements for math and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1],"tags":[92,26,93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}