Press

For Press Related Inquiries: [email protected]

 

November 26th, 2013 Press Release: NYC Parents and Students Have a Message for Bill de Blasio

Parents sent ‘opt out’ letter for test in hoax (Covers The Chancellor’s Day Invoice, ABC News (June 7th, 2013)

Dear Teacher, Johnny Is Skipping the Test, NY Times (October 13th, 2012)

Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market, Huffington Post (August 2nd, 2012)

Should Pearson, a giant multinational, be influencing our education policy?, The Guardian (July 16th, 2012)

Test Expert: State Exam Problem Is Worse than Reported, NY Times (June 25th, 2012)

Parents protest surge in standardized testing, Reuters (June 12th, 2012)

Dozens of Rockland, Westchester pupils boycott company’s field tests, The Journal News – Lower Hudson Region (June 9th, 2012)

New York Parents Protest Testing, EdWeek (June 8th, 2012)

Some students boycott tryout test, FoxNY ( June 7th, 2012)

New York Standardized Testing Protest Brings Parents, Students To Pearson’s Steps, Huffington Post (June 7th, 2012)

Parents protest Pearson, New York state’s ‘field-testing’ of exams, HechingerEd (June 7th, 2012)

Parents and students protest dummy exams by ‘talking pineapple’ test-maker, NY Daily News (June 7th, 2012)

Schools Boycott Latest Round Of Standardized Testing, NY1 (June 7th, 2012)

Parents Protest High-Stakes Exams Outside Testing Company Offices, Wall Street Journal (June 7th, 2012)

Parents and Students Say ‘Enough’ to More Testing, NY Times (June 7th, 2012)

Brandishing pineapples, parents and students target Pearson, Gotham Schools (June 7th, 2012)

Why we’re protesting today at Pearson HQ, Daily Kos (June 7th, 2012)

Parent ‘Field Trip’ to Protest Standardized Tests, Huffington Post (June 6th, 2012)

New York State Field Tests: ‘Students Should Not Be Informed’ Of Connection To Standardized Exams, Huffington Post (May 28th, 2012)

Featherstone: School field tests go too far, Newsday (May 31, 2012)

Public School Standardized Testing: Enough Is Enough for New York State Kids , Huffington Post (May 29th, 2012)

Padres furiosos por exámenes experimentales, El Diario ( May 23rd, 2012)

Press Release about The School-by-School Boycott of the Pearson Field Tests (May 23rd, 2012)

More Parents Are Saying No to Pearson’s Field Tests , NY Times (May 23rd, 2012)

Suppose They Gave a Standardized Test and Nobody Came?, Huffington Post (May 15th, 2012)

More Tests, More Boycotts, Inside Schools (May 9th, 2012)

“A Testing Culture Out of Control : The joy of learning is gone from our kids’ schools” , NY Daily News (May 2, 2012)

Take Action Now

Use our Toolkit to Educate & Organize at your School

Leave your testing stories on our facebook page

Students, Parents and Teachers Speak Out for Quality Education

Visit Teacher’s Talk Testing to watch video of the Teachers discussing the real world consequences that excessive standardized testing has in their schools and classrooms

Join Us

Featured Posts

@parentvoicesny

ParentVoicesNYTwo reasons every public school parent needs to attend the Rally to

 #ProtectOurSchools thisSaturday… http://t.co/OapmrwkkJV

@ParentVoicesNY                       

ParentVoicesNYSay goodbye to public schools: Diane Ravitch warns Salon some cities will soon have none http://t.co/cUyn7UdGNJ

ParentVoicesNYJoin our letter writing campaign to fight against Cuomo’s destructive proposed education legislation http://t.co/PxpJV9q81K