Thanks to your generous contributions, added to those raised by BATs and many others, this billboard is now driving around Long Island, the hotbed of parent anti-testing sentiment.
Highway billboards will soon loom over major roads into Albany and other cities.
The funds were raised by New York State Allies for Public Education (NYSAPE), a coalition of 50 parent and teacher groups across the state.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
How making magnetic car stickers (like support our troops) that say OPT OUT for your child’s future! Does anyone know of a company that would be willing to make these?
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Love it! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to drive the mobile billboard back in forth in front of the Andy Boy Cuomo’s mansion in Albany or his other place, closer to the city.
I also really like that group the Illuminator Crew, which shines protest messages on buildings. They call it a “tactical media tool”. Very cool. http://theilluminator.org/
Andy “Mini-Nixon” Cuomo would absolutely hate that, too.
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The President’s weekly address led with reducing testing as the lead up to selling his ed reform policies.
It’s rhetoric- I listened to the Senate hearings and I don’t think they truly believe kids are over-tested in DC – I think they’re pandering – but it’s interesting they’re worried about how it might affect their ed reform agenda or political fortunes 🙂
You-all managed to get the attention of the Ed Reform Movement in DC and you did it without billionaire backers or tens of millions of dollars from foundations or a ed reform org with paid staffers and marketing people and all the rest. That’s impressive.
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NYSAPE has Test Refusal themed car magnets on their website nysape.org
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The NYSAPE store link directly is here:
http://www.cafepress.com/nysalliesforpubliceducation
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Here’s an incredibly patronizing pro-testing essay. Parents, like children, presumably, are “easily influenced by others” without a strong, firm hand in ed reform “leadership” directing them to embrace the Common Core:
“Ultimately, the blurring between Common Core fact and fiction reveals a major flaw in the implementation of the program. No one group or individual took the lead in informing parents what the standards actually look like in the classroom and how it would affect their kids. Without political and education leaders providing valid, fact-based justifications for the new testing system and a clear, jargon-free explanation of new teaching strategies, suburban parents are easily influenced by others.”
The technocrats have identified a “flaw in implementation” and it’s parents of public school kids 🙂
Just a minor bump in the ed reform road, parents. With firm (but fair!) leadership the spooked sheep can be herded back into the fold.
http://m.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/suburbia-and-its-common-core-conspiracy-theories/385424/
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You can buy magnetic sheets at office supply stores that can be printed on with any printer. And also printable t shirt iron ons.
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Thanks for the tip on the magnet sheets. Never heard of that.
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NYSAPE will send you graphic files for any of the graphics they offer so that you can print your own or have them printed in bulk by the vendor of your choice. Email nys.allies@gmail.com and indicate which images you would like.
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