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CES e-ssential NEWS (plain text)
| Subject | CES Action Alert |
| From Email Address | news@essentialschools.org |
| Test Email Address | bbradshaw@essentialschools.org |
| Send as HTML? | no |
| Date Sent | 05/03/2005 |
| Message: | Dear Friend of CES,
Earlier this year we asked you to send an email to the New York State Board of Regents in support of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, the CES Center in New York, and their effort to continue using a waiver from the state standardized tests granted by the previous state commissioner. More than 600 of you responded and while the Regents did not act, the Chair of the State Assembly Education Committee, Steven Sanders, did. Sanders, who also received a copy of all the emails, brought A. 6286, a bill that allows for the continuation of performance assessment, out of his committee and allowed it to move forward in the New York State Legislature. Now we need your help to get it passed.
This legislation, which the State Senate has already passed in the last session, “finds and declares that the use of rigorous alternative assessments for measuring knowledge, skills, performance and competency in the public schools has been an acceptable and indeed desirable alternative to the use of Regents examinations as a means of gauging student achievement.” This bill will permit schools that have been operating under the waiver to use performance-based assessments for Global History and Geography, United States History and Government, and the sciences in lieu of Regents examinations for the next three years. More importantly, it requires the State Education Commissioner to develop performance-based alternative assessments in these subjects by July, 2008, which will be made available for use in every New York high school.
If the effort is successful in New York, there may be hope for schools across the country to adopt more effective assessment strategies. Now we need your help to communicate to the Assembly Speaker how important our schools are to the national conversation about effective education.
Please click on the link below to send an email to the Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, urging him to support the legislation.
http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/about/create/ces_regents?x-t=act2_create.form
You may also call the Speaker (518-455-3791) and urge him to pass the bill or print out the full text of the letter from the above link and fax it to the speaker (fax # 518-455-4128). Be sure to include your name, state, and school or organization.
Thank you in advance for your support.
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