Amazing news!
Long Island Opt Out, led by parent Jeanette Deutermann, endorsed candidates in yesterday’s school board elections across the two counties that comprise the Island. Fifty-seven of the 75 candidates endorsed by LIOO won their races. This includes seven of Deutermann’s liaisons for Opt Out.
Their message was: “We are taking back our schools.”
Long Island is the national hotbed for opt outs. It is a model for the nation. Parents are organized and active; they have the support of many principals and superintendents.
Jeanette Deutermann has spearheaded this effective resistance to high-stakes testing. She belongs on this blog’s honor roll as a champion of public education.
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That is AWESOME! That is real Parent Power–not the astroturf kind–the kind that gets your shins dirty! Congratulations!
Long Island is proud of Jeanette, our home grown hero of education.
It is so gratifying to see that what I, Jeannette, Lisa Rudley, and countless others have been preaching about the power of the vote at the LOCAL level can do. Now the fight is within these boards to gain majority.
Where is a list of the districts and who won? Can the island be mapped out so buyers know which districts are better to purchase homes, where teaching to the whole child and refusing standardized tests are practiced? Great news!
Hope our elected officials are paying VERY close attention to this on Long Island. We will no longer settle for business as usual. They can try and hise for the next few months but their voting records WILL be used against them! Good job PARENTS!
The Common Core standards are wonderful. The NEW SAT which will be administered for the first time in Jan 2016 is, like the regents, ONE BIG CC TEST. Why aren’t you out there telling parents and kids to opt out of Regents or SAT tests? Oh, and by the way, since your group is so sensitive to kids–I found it disgusting that on the first day of CC testing in my district, the teachers wore their red union t-shirts during the test, which was a really mean thing to do to the kids who you supposedly care so much about. Of course the message you sent while wearing the shirts was “my teacher hates the test, I’m taking the test (following rules of state) and there fore my teacher hates me now” Nice! But, the standards aren’t going anywhere. I hope the teachers who don’t like the standard and tests go teach in private school. You have that choice you know. By the way, I am an educational consultant and know infinitely more about college admissions than any teacher or parent reading this. The kids whose parents opt them out are at a marked disadvantage when it comes time to take the PSAT and SAT.