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PURE Fact Sheet: Opting out of student testing: What’s the law for Chicago families?
PURE Fact Sheet: Tests in the Chicago Public Schools 2012
PURE Tip Sheet: Sample Testing Opt Out letters
PURE Tip Sheet: Action Steps for better assessment: What you can do to win the testing battle
PURE Tip Sheet: Testing opt out legal language
Reasons for not testing: chart from Illinois State Board of Education
Illinois state law on state assessment
Opt Out toolkit from United Opt Out National
Indiana parent flyer on opting out
PURE Fact Sheet: How Arne Duncan may be taking the FAMILY, RIGHTS, and PRIVACY out of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
FairTest Fact Sheet: A Better Way to Evaluate Students and Schools
FairTest Fact Sheet: Common Core Assessments: More Tests, But Not Much Better
FairTest Fact Sheet: Why Teacher Evaluation Shouldn’t Rest on Student Test Scores
National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing – Sign Now!
NEW! LSC tip sheet: What Local School Councils can do to Challenge the Misuse and Overuse of Standardized Tests

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