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OPT OUT INFORMATION
(Letter from N.C. DOE)

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Please know that we are aware of the limitations of standardized tests and that is why we report a student's score with an error band around the score. There also is a NC statute that states, "the principal shall not make the decision [about a student's grade placement or promotion] solely based on standardized test scores." (GS 115C-288(a)) ======

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We do allow certain medical exemptions (as you discovered on the DPI website). The federal law, No Child Left Behind, allows the medical exemptions but does not allow any other kind of exemptions from end-of-grade testing except from the reading test for certain limited English proficient (LEP) students in their first year in US schools. All other students are required to take the tests. ====== [Source: Parents and Kids Against Standardized Testing - Discussion - North Carolina]

**NC PARENTS AND STUDENTS MUST REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE STANDARDIZED TESTING. THIS IS THE LANGUAGE YOU SHOULD USE WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR SCHOOL. IF YOU SAY "OPT OUT" THEY COULD REPLY BY SAYING THERE IS NO PROVISION FOR OPTING OUT. YOU MUST REFUSE THE TESTS!!!**

LINKS: No reference to opting out apparent in legislation/regulation:

NC Department of Public Instruction Accountability Services.
@http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/ Request for Testing Exemptions Based on Significant Medical Emergencies and/or Conditions. @http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/memos/medexceptmemo1011.pdf

NC General Statutes about opting out. Here's the link to the NC General Statutes.
@http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/Statutes/StatutesTOC.pl?Chapter=0115C Article 10A. Testing. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByArticle/Chapter_115C/Article_10A.htm√

NEWS
[|Opting out of standardized testing in NC] - News & Observer, Raleigh, NC [|Some NC parents plan to refuse standardized school tests] - News & Observer, Raleigh, NC [|Kids can read during test time] - Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC [|Politics-driven Read to Achieve a path to failure for NC] - News & Observer, Raleigh, NC [|Testing Us All] - Dirt & Noise [|A kid’s take on end-of-grade testing]- Read. Write. Run [|2013-14 Test Refusals Successful] - Mecklenburg Acts, Charlotte, NC [|OPT-OUT/REFUSAL]- Mecklenburg Acts, Charlotte, NC [|Mom says autistic child should not be tested]- ABC11 [|Orange County student protests standardized tests]- ABC11 [|Op Ed: Telling It Like It Is in NC-Studying Our Options in NC-Opting Out, Teacher Tenure]- Blue Hat Movement [|Don’t visit the failures of high-stakes testing on special needs children]- NC Policy Watch [|Top authors — including Maya Angelou — urge Obama to curb standardized testing]- Washington Post [|Freeman: Why I’m no longer a teacher] - Midtown Raleigh News [|We are refusing the test in North Carolina]. - Dirt & Noise [|Refusing To Take NC Standardized Tests Can Cost Some Students]- WFAE 90.7 Charlotte [|Half of Forsyth third-graders may have to take summer reading program]- FOX 8 [|Maya Angelou hits Obama on school ‘testing overuse and abuse’]- MSNBC [|Standardized tests: Opt out or buckle down?] - Charlotte Observer [|Opting Out Of Tests In North Carolina] - Lady Liberty 1885 [|Education advocates call for end to test-based teaching evaluation] NC Policy Watch, 2016 [|State board hears testing concerns] Mecklenburg Acts, 2016 [|Students are immersed in tests that measure the wrong thing] - Charlotte Observer, 2016 [|Reducing tests requires action by General Assembly] Mecklenburg Acts, 2016

**Facebook Groups & Pages**
[|Parents & Kids Against Standardized Testing] [|Parents & Kids Against Standardized Testing ( Opt Out of State Testing )] [| Group] [|Mecklenburg ACTS] [|Blue Hat Movement]
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