Congressman Chris Gibson (R-NY) and Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) are sponsoring legislation to banish federally mandated annual testing. Everyone who is opposed to the overuse and misuse of standardized testing should support this bill. It is called The Student Testing Improvement and Accountability Act.
To download a one page description, click here
For a one page letter Gibson and Sinema wrote to the other Congress people, click here
For the full text of the proposed bill, click here
For the official description from congress.gov, including the list of co-sponsors, click here
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Reblogged this on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé and commented:
Support The Student Testing Improvement and Accountability Act and banish federally mandated annual testing in the public schools. Let’s return out schools to the states and elected school boards that run almost 15,000 individual public school districts—that are not a monopoly as the true monopolist corporate reformers claim with their lies and propaganda.
Let’s watch Pearson bring out their lobbyists to stop this. I’m really hoping this will pass.
Got my hopes up! Crossing my fingers and wishing with all my might!
Appears from the Congressional bill tracker that HR 4172 was introduced last March and was sent to subcommittee in June; all part of 113th Congress. The pdf version of the full text of the bill looks like 114th Congress and without an assigned HR number yet. I am assuming it died in subcommittee at the end of last year’s legislative session and is now being reintroduced. If so, why? Has the midterm elections altered the balance meaningfully or do Rep. Gibson and Sinema have some other reasons to offer this now? Alexander is pushing on the Senate side for reauthorization of ESEA with a competing bill from fellow Republican Roberts (LOCAL Level Act). Is there now sufficient support in both House and Senate to pass anti-Common Core laws?