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> On Feb 3, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Nice gesture, but as Batyushka Stalin quipped, how many divisions does the
> Washington State Democratic Party's Central Committee have?
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> A far more effective approach would be organizing a referendum that legally
> bans high stake standardized testing in the state, or better yet - makes
> them meaningless by allowing people to opt out. The idea that I circulated
> some time ago is the "promotion of educational choice" that mandates giving
> every student a choice of different testing methods e.g. standardized test,
> oral examination, or a performance of a project. If every of these three
> alternatives were equally likely to be elected, the standardized testing
> would be meaningless because they are based on ranking the entire student
> population not a self-selected sample accounting for a third of that
> population.
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> I think the idea of "choice" is catchy enough to be attractive to a wide
> range of interests, including libertarians, christers, and conservatives.
>
> Wojtek
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>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:01 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/the-washington-state-democratic-party-central-committee-passed-a-resolution-opposing-common-core-state-standards/
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>> This is the first time a statewide Democratic Party committee has taken a
>> public position against the Common Core and it happened in our great state.
>> David Spring, a Parents Across America member and active in the Democratic
>> Party in East King County and who was one of the education advocates who
>> organized this effort, said:
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>> This was a huge victory for the children, parents, and teachers of
>> Washington State to have the Washington State Democratic Party - the first
>> Democratic Party in the nation to vote against Common Core. It is our hope
>> that this is the beginning of the end for Bill Gates in the Common Core
>> scam. This was the grassroots - the rank and file of the Democratic Party -
>> who said NO to Common Core. They deserve all the credit, along with you
>> teacher activists.
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>> The resolution as it was passed.
>> Resolution Opposing Common Core State Standards
>> WHEREAS the copyrighted (and therefore unchangeable) Common Core State
>> Standards (CCSS) are a set of controversial top-down K-12 academic
>> standards that were promulgated by wealthy private interests without
>> research-based evidence of validity and are developmentally inappropriate
>> in the lowest grades; and
>>
>> WHEREAS, as a means of avoiding the U.S. Constitution's 10th Amendment
>> prohibition against federal meddling in state education policy, two
>> unaccountable private trade associations-the National Governors Association
>> (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)-have received
>> millions of dollars in funding from the Gates Foundation and others to
>> create the CCSS; and
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>> WHEREAS the U.S. Department of Education improperly pressured state
>> legislatures into adopting the Common Core State Standards and high-stakes
>> standardized testing based on them as a condition of competing for federal
>> Race to the Top (RTTT) stimulus funds that should have been based on need;
>> and
>>
>> WHEREAS as a result of Washington State Senate Bill 6669, which passed the
>> State legislature on March 11, 2010, the Office of the Superintendent of
>> Instruction (OSPI) adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) on July 20,
>> 2011; and
>> WHEREAS this adoption effectively transfers control over public school
>> standardized testing from locally elected school boards to the
>> unaccountable corporate interests that control the CCSS and who stand to
>> profit substantially; and
>>
>> WHEREAS the Washington State Constitution also calls for public education
>> to be controlled by the State of Washington through our elected State
>> legislature, our elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction and our
>> elected local school boards; and
>>
>> WHEREAS implementation of CCSS will cost local school districts hundreds
>> of millions of dollars to pay for standardized computer-based tests, new
>> technology, new curricula and teacher training at a time when Washington is
>> already insufficiently funding K-12 Basic Education without proven benefit
>> to students; and WHEREAS some states have already withdrawn from CCSS;
>>
>> THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we call upon the Washington State
>> legislature and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to withdraw from
>> the CCSS and keep K-12 education student-centered and accountable to the
>> people of Washington State.
>> Submitted by Sarajane Siegfried, Resolutions Chair
>> When the vote was taken, about two thirds of the delegates voted in favor
>> of Resolution 707.
>> Congratulations to all who made this happen!
>> For information on how your party can make this happen, go to "How to get
>> your State Democratic Party Committee to Oppose Common Core."
>>
>> Submitted by Dora Taylor
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