Monthly archive for June 2015

NPE Forms Coalition of Education and Civil Rights Groups to Oppose High-Stakes Testing

June 18, 2015 Action Alerts, Activism, Civil Rights, Testing / Opting Out We, the below undersigned organizations, oppose high-stakes testing because we believe these tests are causing harm to students, to public schools, and to the cause of educational equity. High-stakes standardized tests, rather than reducing the opportunity gap, have been used to rank, sort, label, and punish Black and Latino students, and recent immigrants to this country. We oppose high-stakes tests because: There is no evidence that these tests contribute to the quality of education, have led to improved educational equity in funding or programs, or have helped close

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2015-16 Leadership Training Schedule

One of the benefits of being a PTA is receiving hands on Leadership training each year to ensure the success of your PTA.  Our leadership training focus specifically on the roles and responsibilities of your Executive Board and officers,  Finances, Recruiting and retaining membership, and how to access and use the various tools, supports and resources available to you through Delaware PTA and National PTA ( grants, programs, awards, e-Learning and much more). We have tons of new updates regarding membership cards, back to school kits and important updates from the IRS.  So all units need to participate in an upcoming

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Thank You!!!

As the school year comes to an end, Delaware PTA would like to thank all of our hard working parents, teachers and students for another successful year.  We have developed an End of Year Checklist to assist in wrapping up end of the year business.   This year we saw many changes and encountered many challenges. As a result, we saw many parents and teachers rise up in action and make their voices heard.  Together we made our voices heard on issues such as proposed changes to district dress codes, changes in the state assessments, the parent opt out, student

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“Resistance to High Stakes Tests Serves the Cause of Equity in Education”

Delaware PTA is pleased to announce that we have joined a coalition of national and state civil rights and education advocacy groups to bring awareness and education to the damaging effects that high stakes testing has on equity in education in our public education system.  The Network for Public Education’s Board of Directors, in conjunction with Jesse Hagopian recently released statements in response to the Leadership Conference statement opposing the opt out movement. You can read both statements here. The statements will be re-released as a coalition next week. We will post this statement on our website, Twitter and Facebook. This statement will

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