Parents count 30,000 Common Core ‘opt outs,’ state answers with ‘opt-ins’

[hrmjustin]

Jessica Bakeman

ALBANY—By the reckoning of a group of parent-activists, more than 30,000 students outside New York City refused to take the state's federally required, Common Core-based state exams.

Parents, connected by social media, circulated a spreadsheet all week and encouraged each other to call local superintendents and update the running tally of students who “opted out” of the Common Core-aligned English tests, which were administered in third through eighth grades Monday through Wednesday. The spreadsheet now 30,267 shows students refusing.

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